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11/07/08
Q: Any new steroids out there on the market that are not detectable?
A: That’s a tricky question because with all of the supplements (prohormones/ prosteroids) on the market, technically, if most were tested by Olympic labs, they’d come up as a steroid and be banned. So close are these molecular strands to actual established steroids, that a lab would consider it the same thing. When the whole Balco thing was going on, Don Catlin, the head of the Olympic testing committee, said that prior to the scandal, he had not discovered more than two designer steroids in 20 years of testing. But once THG had been identified, it obliterated that theory, and broadened curiosity about the supplement market - which previously was not being watched in that manner.
Within weeks of that, he received samples of, and tested, five products touted as having the ability to add mass rapidly: Superdrol
[methylmasteron - red.], supplied by Anabolic Xtreme of San Diego; Prostanozol
[winstrol zonder methylgroep - red] and Ergomax LMG, both marketed by Applied Lifescience Research Industries (ALRI) of Las Vegas; Methyl 1-P, sold by Legal Gear of Brighton, Mich.; and, FiniGenX Magnum Liquid, sold by PharmaGenX of San Marcos, Calif. Based on Olympic committee criteria, all were found to fall under the heading of a steroid because their chemical composition qualified as an anabolic steroid. Catlin said that within a year, he found the steroid madol — also known as DMT. It was seized at the Canadian border in 2006. Beyond that, the possibilities of altering chemical code are endless. There are some pretty great minds working on those things all the time out there - geniuses who know enough chemistry to be dangerous. We’ll keep you posted.
