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Thursday, July 30, 2009
FDA Advises Consumers Not to Use Body-Building Supplements that Contain Steroids
The FDA notified consumers and healthcare professionals yesterday not to use body-building products marketed as containing steroids or steroid-like substances. The products are marketed for increasing muscle mass and body building and are advertised as alternatives to anabolic steroids. The FDA warns that these products are marketed as dietary substances, but they are instead unapproved new drugs that have not been reviewed by the FDA for safety and effectiveness.
“Products marketed for body building and claiming to contain steroids or steroid-like substances are illegal and potentially quite dangerous,” said the FDA’s commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg. The agency cent a letter to American Cellular Laboratories Inc., saying it markets and distributes drugs labeled as dietary supplements which are in fact unapproved drugs. To be a dietary supplement, a product has to contain one or more dietary ingredients, such as vitamins or minerals.
Over the past two years, the FDA has received 5 adverse event reports through its MedWatch reporting system directly related to steroid containing products. Some of the events reported include serious liver injury. No deaths were reported. The products affected by the warning are marketed by American Cellular Laboratories, Inc. and include: TREN-Xtreme, ESTRO Xtreme, AH-89-Xtreme, HMG Xtreme, MMA-3 Xtreme, VNS-9 Xtreme, and TT-40 Xtreme.
For more information, see the FDA News Release at:
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm174060.htm
See the MedWatch Safety Information at:
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm173983.htm
See the FDA Consumer Report at:
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm173739.htm
See the article from CNN’s Website at:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/body.building.steroids/index.html?eref=rss_health
Labels: ACLU, body-building, FDA, liver damage, steroids
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
ACLU Files Suit Against Maplewood Challenging the Town's Funeral Protest Ban as Unconstitutional
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) brought suit against the town of Maplewood yesterday challenging the town’s ban on funeral protesting as unconstitutional. The ACLU brought the suit on behalf of the controversial Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church. The Church’s founder Fred Phelps believes that America is being punished with the death of soldiers for its tolerance of homosexuality. Church members first began protesting at the funerals of homosexuals, but can also be found protesting the funerals of soldiers and carrying signs that say things such as “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.”
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, but is part of a larger effort by the ACLU to go after state and local laws banning funeral protesting, says Tony Rothert, the legal director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri. The Westboro Baptist Church has already made some progress in challenging a state of Missouri law that banned funeral protests. A suit was filed to block the enforcement of the law while the constitutional challenge was tried, which was initially turned down by the District Court but was reversed by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Maplewood’s law is stricter than the state law, requiring a wider protest exclusion zone that lasts for a longer period of time. The mayor of Maplewood and a lawyer that represents Maplewood would not comment on the suit.
For more information, see the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article at:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/1E6E79B4D3D3166D862575ED00017B60?OpenDocument#tp_newCommentAnchor
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, but is part of a larger effort by the ACLU to go after state and local laws banning funeral protesting, says Tony Rothert, the legal director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri. The Westboro Baptist Church has already made some progress in challenging a state of Missouri law that banned funeral protests. A suit was filed to block the enforcement of the law while the constitutional challenge was tried, which was initially turned down by the District Court but was reversed by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Maplewood’s law is stricter than the state law, requiring a wider protest exclusion zone that lasts for a longer period of time. The mayor of Maplewood and a lawyer that represents Maplewood would not comment on the suit.
For more information, see the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article at:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/1E6E79B4D3D3166D862575ED00017B60?OpenDocument#tp_newCommentAnchor
Labels: ACLU, funeral, homosexuality, Phelps, protest, soldiers, Westboro Baptist Church
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