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An 18- year old boy may not know anything about the ingredients listed on a bottle of supplements. Neither may his mom. Most of us don't unless we look them up. So he bought a container of Cell-Tech Hardcore in a popular store in Braintree, Massachusetts. He wanted to pack on muscle strength as promised by the supplement.
Mother and son didn't know that the Food and Drug Administration recently warned against the use of some bodybuilding supplements because they might have steroids which are illegal.
"A US Senate subcommittee held a hearing on an FDA report that two supplements made by American Cellular Labs Inc. - Tren Xtreme and Mass Xtreme Size Promoter - contained synthetic versions of anabolic steroids. The FDA advised consumers to avoid products that purport to offer steroid-like effects or are advertised with such words as “hardcore’’ and “anabolic.’’ Steroid use has been associated with acute liver injury, heart failure, and side effects such as male infertility, rage, and stunted growth in children." source
Those products aren't on the market any more. Many medical problems were reported along with the death of a 37-year old man.
A survey last year by the National Institutes for Health and the Health and Human Services department found 1 in 33 high school seniors in the U.S. said they used steroids in the year before. That number doesn't include those who used them unknowingly.
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