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China Revokes GeneScience Pharmaceuticals License for Jintropin Human Growth Hormone

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

China announced the revocation of the GeneScience Pharmaceutical license to manufacturer Jintropin brand human growth hormone. This represents a major success in efforts towards the internationalization of steroid and doping law by the United States. The U.S. federal government indicted CEO Lei Jin and GeneScience Pharmaceutical Inc. last fall as part of Operation Raw Deal (”China Cracks Down on Drug Companies,” June 19).

One of the drugmakers that China named Wednesday was GeneScience Pharmaceutical, which is based in northern China and run by an American-educated executive. Last September, a federal grand jury in Rhode Island indicted the company for illegally distributing millions of dollars in human growth hormones in the United States. The company had denied the allegation, but its American agent pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to distribute H.G.H.

It certainly is no coincidence that on the same day, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Rhode Island announced the federal government would get to keep approximately $2.7 million dollars seized from U.S.-based branches of Chinese bank accounts belonging to GeneScience.

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Steroid Ignorance Pervasive in Toledo Ohio

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Several weeks ago, the Toledo Blade Newspaper in Ohio erroneously identified clenbuterol and/or human growth hormone as anabolic steroids in the case of Johnathan Roumaya. Roumaya was sentenced on Monday for the misdemeanor charge of possession of dangerous drugs.

The Toledo Blade once again erred in calling the confiscated drug(s) anabolic steroids (”Oregon bar workers gets 3 days in jail over steroids,” April 15).

Authorities searched the bar in January as part of the crash investigation and found steroids and syringes in a filing cabinet.

But steroid ignorance is apparently contagious in Toledo, Ohio permeating the local media, attorneys and courts.

The NBC 24 affiliate in Toledo also misidentified clenbuterol and growth hormone as steroids, lifting a description of the drugs (practically verbatim) from a March 8th report by Laren Weber of the Toledo Blade (”Rodeo Bar owner sentenced for possession of drugs,” April 14).

Authorities searched the bar in Jan. and found steroids and syringes in a filing cabinet.  The items found were listed as a blister pack containing nine tablets of Clenbuterol, a bottle with liquid Clenbuterol, several vials of the human growth hormone Jintropin, and a bag of syringes.  Clenbuterol is a steroid used in meat production that is banned in the US.

Surely, the ABC 13 affiliate in Toledo would accurately identify clenbuterol and growth hormone, right? Maybe not. (”Rodeo Bar owner behind bars,” April 14)

Police found body building drugs, box syringes, and an illegal steroid at the bar during a search.

And the CBS 11 affiliate in Toledo? (”Owner of Rodeo Bar sentenced for HGH possession,” April 14)

One of the owners of the Rodeo Bar and Grill pleaded no contest last month to possessing human growth hormone.

Finally! But CBS goes on to paraphrase Roumaya’s attorney who apparently identifies growth hormone as an anabolic steroid! Dohh!

An attorney for Jon Roumaya said he was trying to lose weight, so he used the steroid.

CBS and ABC affiliates in Toledo also report that the courts apparently suffer from steroid ignorance too. “Random steroid drug testing” was a condition of Roumaya’s sentence (even though anabolic steroids were not involved in the case).

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Steroid Fact Checking at the Toledo Blade Newspaper

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I would expect that most journalists would have a basic understanding of anabolic steroids given that the topic has been a major news story for several years now. But journalists still fail to perform their “steroid fact checking” when writing stories on the topic. The Toledo Blade Newspaper out of Ohio published a story about a steroid bust. The only problem with the story was that the man was not busted for anabolic steroids.

Authorities searched the bar in January and found steroids and syringes in a filing cabinet.

The items found were listed as a blister pack containing nine tablets of Clenbuterol, a bottle with liquid Clenbuterol, several vials of the human growth hormone Jintropin, and a bag of syringes and more human growth hormone. Clenbuterol is a steroid used in meat production that’s banned in the United States.

Clenbuterol is not a steroid and neither is human growth hormone. A substance does not automatically become an anabolic steroid simply because it is used in sports or bodybuilding for performance enhancing purposes.  I’m not sure why so many people are committed to remaining blissfully ignorant about steroids. Why the resistance to steroid education?

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