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U.S. orders halt to sales of the supplement andro.
2004 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. government ordered an end to sales of the steroid-like supplement andro, made famous by baseball's Mark McGwire, in the latest crackdown on over-the-counter pills that claim to help people get in better shape.
The move against andro came even as the government faced a legal challenge to its pending ban on sales of another supplement, ephedra.
Andro, short for androstenedione, is a steroid precursor, the body converts it into testosterone, and, to some extent, estrogen.
Thus it poses the same health risks as directly using an anabolic steroid, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said March 11, 2004, in warning 23 manufacturers to cease sales or face federal seizure of their products and other penalties.
Among the risks FDA cited are heart and liver damage, and some gender-specific problems: testicular atrophy, impotence and breast enlargement for males, and facial hair, menstrual problems and increased risk of breast and uterine cancer for females. Children can undergo early puberty and stunting of bone growth.
"These are irreversible, irreversible health consequences," FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan said.
Athletic use of performance-enhancing drugs is drawing harsh political scrutiny, even from President Bush, and legislation pending in Congress would ban over-the-counter sales of andro, athletes' trendy new steroid THG, and more than two dozen other steroid-like substances. The Bush administration endorsed that legislation March 11, 2004, and already had put sellers on notice that THG was an illegal steroid.
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