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Major League Baseball is weighing a plan to blood-test minor league players for human growth hormone for the first time, MLB President Bob DuPuy said Thursday.
(March 5, 2010)

Commissioner Bud Selig applauded the introduction Wednesday of the Dietary Safety Act of 2010, a bill aimed at more effective regulation of dietary supplements to ensure they do not contain banned or dangerous substances.
(March 4, 2010)

As reassuring as they may seem, the words "FDA approved" or "FDA registered" don't mean as much as consumers often assume.
(March 3, 2010)

Canada's anti-doping agency will follow the lead of its British counterpart in issuing athletes "biological passports" designed to more precisely flag banned substances in their blood.
(March 2, 2010)

The next couple of days could still see positive doping tests from the Vancouver Olympics as the anti-doping lab processes samples taken in the final events of the Games.
(March 1, 2010)

Former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., together with Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., on Wednesday introduced the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, a bill that would impose greater restrictions on the entire dietary supplement industry, in part because of the insinuation often made that supplements may contain banned performance-enhancing ingredients.
(04 February 2010)

A recent study published by well-known and respected scientists in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism found that the active ingredient in FRS Healthy Energy Products did not improve performance.
(04 February 2010)

Government regulation of dietary supplements will be discussed at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. The issue is being looked at because steroids and other banned substances are turning up in over-the-counter bodybuilding products.
(24 December 2009)

The FDA and Atlas Operations have notified consumers of a voluntary nationwide recall of the company's dietary supplements for sexual enhancement. FDA lab analyses found certain batches of the product to contain undeclared sulfoaildenafil, an unapproved analog of sildenafil, an FDA-approved drug used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Sulfoaildenafil may pose a threat to consumers because of its interaction with some prescription drugs (eg, nitroglycerin) that may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. Patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease often take other prescription drugs.
(16 December 2009)

The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) www.fda.gov in cooperation with Bayer’s Consumer Care division, voluntarily recalled the combination package of Alka-Seltzer Plus Day and Night Cold Formula Liquid Gels, which was initiated when they found out the labeling was printed reversed, on December, 8, 2009.
(10 December 2009)