Ingredients Under Review

Recently the Drug Enforcement Administration identified 3 ingredients to be scheduled as anabolic steroids. Supplement Consultants look to not only serve as a consultant to individual companies, but also to serve as the watchdog of the industry. We fully understand the necessity that the DEA strictly satisfy all requirements of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of '04. Seeing that there was no intervention from the industry in this matter, we intervened in the DEA's proposed rule making by submitting a comment expressing the sentiment of many throughout the industry.

Consultants, objected to 2 of the products being added to the list of controlled substances. Only 2 of the substances were objectionable on the basis that they are legal dietary products. The 1st "boldione," a naturally occurring hormone in cattle that has been sold since 2002 as a dietary supplement, was not shown to be an anabolic steroid in the studies of the DEA. Likewise, the DEA has offered insufficient info regarding the 2nd prohormone, 19-nor-4, Androstadienedione (known by the trade name "FinigenX"), to serve as the basis for scheduling the ingredient as a steroid. There is no reliable data showing FinigenX to be anabolic in the DEA's study.