Jareem Gunter, a college baseball player with dreams of making it big in the world of professional sports, communicated to the Congress on this Tuesday that his dreams were crushed after he discovered that was used by him as a safe and legal dietary supplement brought liver failure.
From TimesUnion.com:
“A key principle of the (’94) law is that supplements were not subject to pre-market approval, since the cost and time alone required to see a product through FDA approval would sound the death knell for this industry,” Hatch said. As for products that contain steroids, he said, “Simply put, under current law, these products are not allowed to be marketed.”
Michael Levy, director of the FDA’s division of new drugs and labeling compliance, told the panel his agency has a limited ability to keep dietary supplements with steroids from being marketed.
“FDA generally cannot identify violative products before they enter the marketplace,” Levy said. “After products enter the market, we must undertake a painstaking investigative and analytical process” to show the products violate the law.
Daniel Fabricant, interim executive director and CEO of the Natural Products Association, which represents retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of health foods and dietary supplements, said, “The barriers to enforcement are simple: money, manpower and will.”
Like many stories in the past, the story of Jareem is equally disturbing. But one thing that cannot be possibly denied is the fact that steroid users often neglect the usefulness of qualified medical advice before consuming steroids and supplements. Steroid abuse is fatal and steroid users need to realize this fact.
Jareem Gunter, a college baseball player with dreams of making it big in the world of professional 
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