Steve Cardillo, the owner of American Nutrition Center, a small sports nutrition shop in Everett, Mass, said small, independent retailers like him aren't worried about the possibility of tighter restrictions on their merchandise. He said prohormones account for only about five percent of his business. He has, however, watched with interest as distributors become targets of a recent crackdown by the FDA (led in part by agents who uncovered the BALCO doping conspiracy).
Cardillo, who makes weight-lifting belts for bodybuilders and pro athletes, said the industry is abuzz over the trouble at Bodybuilding.com, an Idaho-based company that was raided last week and accused of selling and marketing anabolic steroids.
"Once they start cutting it off at the distribution level, then that will just sever the line of getting this stuff," said Cardillo. "You cut the big vein and it never gets to the small stuff. It puts fear into these people and everyone's trying to get rid of their stuff. They want it out of their buildings."
One thing is for certain, Cardillo said: as soon as there is any sign that these products will go off the market because the government thinks they come too close to anabolic steroids, Cardillo's clients will rush out to stock up on prohormones while they can. He recalled a similar rush on Ephedra several years ago.
"Once you can't have it, everybody wants it," said Cardillo. "That's the nature of everything in life. That will get it out of the pipeline even faster. Everyone's going to clamor for it. Everyone's going to grab it before it's gone."
Two hours of testimony and only two senators bother to show up :-)If you are more interested in the subject than most of them were you can listen to the webcast of it on this link.
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