Anabolic Steroid Contamination via hazardous Vitamin Supplements

Beginning in February 2013, Dr. Kenneth Spaeth began seeing the first of a group of patients that shared similar symptoms and abnormalities in laboratory tests of the liver, thyroid and cholesterol levels. They came to see him concerned that it was an exposure to pesticides or some other chemical that had caused those signs and symptoms. It turned out that the only commonality was the vitamin supplements they took: same brand and same type…

• Read Dangers Lurking in Supplements Prove Need for Oversight (Op-Ed), by Dr. Kenneth Spaeth, North Shore University Hospital, 31 July 2013.
• Read FDA warns one brand of vitamin B supplement contains dangerous steroids, by David Simpson, for CNN, 31 July 2013.