Some dietary supplements cause positives for steroids

The professional boxer Andre Berto tested positive for the steroid Nandrolone. He was tested by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA).
 This boxer had to fight against Victor Ortiz on June 23, 2012 in Los Angeles. This boxer agreed to submit to random drug testing before the fight. T: E ratio method and carbon isotope ratio testing were used; they both indicated about application of the anabolic steroid Nandrolone.
It was already the second time this month, when the VADA tested boxers and caught them taking steroids. The first of them was the boxer Lamont Peterson. He was scheduled to fight against Amir Khan. It is quite ironically that Peterson requested random blood and urine testing. A carbon isotope ratio test conducted by the VADA demonstrated that exogenous testosterone was in system of Peterson certain weeks before the match.
The tests conducted by the VADA influenced greatly on financial position of several companies. For example, Golden Boy Promotions lost essential potential profit due to Lamont Peterson’s positives. It was defined by the CEO of the company Richard Schaeffer that the company lost 250, 000 dollars.
The cancelation of the fight between Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz will probably not influence greatly on financial position of certain promotional companies because another boxer will possibly replace Andre Berto and will meet Ortiz.
As for the fighter Andre Berto, he didn’t provide any explanation for his positives. He hired the attorney Howard Jacobs that would represent and defeat him.
Berto confirmed that he had never administered steroids. So, he noted that he investigated with his attorney what could lead to positives for steroids. The fighter Andre Berto concluded that he had never cheated; he succeeded in sport because of hard workouts and dedication.
The attorney Howard Jacobs represented numerous other sportspersons who turned out to be victims of contaminated nutritional supplements.
It is claimed that since Nandrolone has too long half life and it is detected easily, it isn’t very popular among doping sportspeople. But it has been determined many times that several dietary supplements contained the ingredient nandrolone that led to positives for steroids. But since sometimes not every ingredient is enumerated on the label, athletes become victims of contaminated sport supplements.