The New York Times > National > Beyond Balco: How One Pill Escaped the List of Controlled Steroids
This is from the NY Times, so it will disappear into their pay archive in a day or two, but it tells the tale of a supplement (DHEA) that was once banned by the FDA but is now sold over the counter as a food supplement, and which isn’t on the list of banned PEDs. It was, in fact, granted an exemption from that January 2005 law that made testosterone precursors, like Andro, illegal.
Why? Political sway, it seems, though Utah Senator, who favored the examption for DHEA, says it has nothing to do with the fact that his son is a lobbyist for a trade group of supplement manufacturers and distriibutors. Nah.