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Baseball’s Other Shoe Falls Amid Clouded Steroid Picture.

By now everyone knows about the bombshell report that was dropped on Thursday when 85 baseball players were accused by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell’s investigative committee of using steroids during their baseball careers. Surely, this is the biggest scandal to hit baseball since the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919.

As this blockbuster story unfolds, one question will be how many players admit knowingly taking steroids--and how many will hide behind the excuse that they didn’t know what was going on. That is essentially what Jacksonville Jaguars’ football player Marcus Stroud said in November when he was suspended from the NFL for violating the league’s steroid policy. Stroud blamed his positive drug test on inadvertent       contamination of a sports supplement he was taking

Certainly, testing and policing of supplements will help. If nothing else, it will give pro athletes one less foot (or shall we say black sock) to stand on when defending their actions.

New Study by Informed Choice Indicates That Nearly 25% of Supplements are Contaminated with Steroids, Stimulants and Banned Substances

According to a new study released today and commissioned by Informed-Choice LLC, a not-for-profit partnership between supplement companies and a world-class, anti-doping laboratory, approximately one quarter of supplements could be contaminated.

In the research, 58 supplement samples were purchased from popular retail outlets and Internet sites in the United States and sent to HFL*, the world’s most experienced anti-doping lab in the field of supplement testing, for analysis. Twenty-five percent of the samples showed the presence of steroid contamination while 11 percent showed the existence of stimulants. Samples were analyzed using a validated and ISO 17025-accredited method developed specifically for the qualitative analysis of supplements and used to detect the presence of low levels of steroid and stimulant contaminants that are considered prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). For more information, read the press release or the full survey report.