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Jon Benninger is the vice president of business development for the Health & Nutrition Network at VIRGO. He works on new products, international efforts, industry outreach and advocacy, content development, partnerships and collaborations, and strategic planning. Jon volunteers for many industry associations, committees and initiatives, is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry events, and assists VIRGO clients with solutions and strategies.. He joined VIRGO in 1995 and has served as editor, publisher, and group publisher prior to his current position. He earned a degree in journalism at Arizona State University.

Legal Steroid Supplements Online

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When FDA or others claim that the agency does not have the resources necessary to deal with the steroid / illegal supplement issue, I can only assume that they mean the FDA does not have internet access or does not know how to operate "The Google". I took less than 10 minutes searching for "steroid supplements" and found this:

LegalSteroids.com: note that they state that all of their products are legal in the U.S. due to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.

Steroids-Pharmacy.com: Now these are actual steroids. The real stuff. Shipped from overseas, and shipped into the US. In their FAQs about whether it is legal, they write "Steroids-Pharmacy.com does not assume legal responsibility for ignorance." Are they talking about themselves, their customers, USADA, or the regulatory agencies?

ibuysteroids.com: In their FAQs, they actually promise to resend any orders that "by chance" get seized. They do require proof in the form of a seizure letter of course.

Roid-Shop.com: This seems to be simply another version of one of the previous sites. Probably a much better brand if they intend to go "brick and mortar" some day.

I could go on and on. But the point is this. USADA, FDA, DEA, FTC, the Justice Department, NFL, NBA, MLB, US Track & Field and all of the others who spend more resources pointing fingers and having press conferences than actually dealing with this should be ashamed. If USADA and the FDA put as much effort into trying to really deal with this as they put into bashing DSHEA and twisting the truth, these sites might not be up and running right now. Give me subpoena power and let's see what happens at a hearing.

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