Tennessee drug testing lab found Bumetanide for athlete in 2007

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Tennessee drug testing lab found Bumetanide for athlete in 2007
[SIZE=-1]Ventura County Star, CA [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A drug-testing lab in Tennessee confirmed more than a year ago that StarCaps, the over-the-counter weight-loss pill at the center of five NFL player suspensions, contained the banned diuretic Bumetanide, and the toxicologist in charge said athletes using it put themselves at risk of more than just a positive drug test. [...][/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]"It took us a couple of Ph.Ds and a $300,000 piece of equipment to verify that Bumetanide was contained in StarCaps," he said. "How is somebody supposed to know buying it off the shelf or off the Internet what it really contains? We spent an enormous amount of resources trying to understand this product."[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Black credited the World Anti-Doping Agency with first confirming Bumetanide was in StarCaps and reporting those findings in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology in the November/December 2007 issue ...[/SIZE]


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