Ryan DeLuca, the founder and CEO of Bodybuilding.com, pleaded guilty to five Class A misdemeanor charges arising from a criminal investigation into Bodybuilding.com‘s sale of products containing “synthetic anabolic steroids or synthetic chemical ‘clones’ of anabolic steroids which were not dietary ingredients” between June 2007 and September 2009. Federal agents raided Bodybuilding.com’s corporate offices and warehouses […]
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iForce Nutrition Served Search Warrant During 2009 Olympia Expo
The FDA served iForce Nutrition and owner Dave Nelson with a search warrant during the course of the 2009 IFBB Olympia Expo. The search warrant was executed in the days following the FDA raid of Bodybuilding.com. Four iForce Nutrition products were listed as “undercover purchases” made at Bodybuilding.com. Both the iForce Nutrition search warrant and the Bodybuilding.com search warrant […]
Bodybuilding.com Raided in Criminal Steroid Investigation on Eve of IFBB Olympia Weekend
The federal government continued their steroid witch-hunt targeting the dietary supplement industry with a raid of Bodybuilding.com on Thursday, September 24, 2009. The criminal investigation accuses Bodybuilding.com and its corporate officers of illegal marketing and distributing several anabolic steroids, unapproved new and misbranded drugs labeled fraudulently as dietary supplements, specifically “Madol”, “Tren”, “Superdrol”, “Androstenedione”, and […]
Tren Xtreme Steroid Investigation Leads to Raids of American Cellular Labs and Max Muscle
FDA Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, the agent who has become the face of the federal government witch-hunt against steroid users in professional sports during the BALCO scandal, has move his attention to investigating dietary supplement companies suspected of selling designer anabolic steroids. Novitzky’s latest steroid investigation targeted two popular products sold and marketed as dietary […]