Performance-enhancing drugs designed to be missed by current tests are easily available over the Internet, the Washington Post reports.
The newspaper obtained five supplements advertised on the Internet and had them tested by Don Catlin, director of the U.S. Olympic testing lab at UCLA. Catlin reported that four of the supplements included previously undetected anabolic steroids and the fifth a steroid identified two years ago and believed to be in limited circulation.
Chemists continue to stay one step ahead of law enforcement and athletic regulators.
"There's an unlimited pool of steroids," an official with a dietary supplement company told the Post. "You could do this for the next 100 years."
In a new book, former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski admits obtaining designer steroids from Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO.
"As soon as I found out something could be tested for, I stopped taking it," he said in the book, according to CBS News.
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