Dec 13 2008
Bumetanide: Already Detected in Starcaps Since 2007
It is surprising that most of the athletes found positive for the diuretic Bumetanide argued that they dont know that this substance is included in the dietary supplement StarCaps. Based on the report of Teresa Walker from the Associated Press, a laboratory in Tennessee already found out a year ago the banned substance Bumetanide in StarCaps. It was even published in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology in the November/December 2007 issue. The World Anti Doping Agency initiated the publication of these findings.
David Black is the owner of the laboratory who were first commissioned by then Commissioner Pete Rozelle in the late 1980’s to set up and coordinate the NFL’s original steroid testing program. In an interview, Black is worried about the effects of StarCaps to the athletes. Users may encounter health problems aside from of course testing positive for this drug and will cause them to be sanctioned by anti doping agencies and their league. According to Black, Bumetanide is a very potent diuretic for an athlete and may cause dehydration.”They’d be taking a diuretic without the knowledge of it. That could lead to serious health considerations. That could lead to electrolyte abnormalities, cardiovascular collapse, cardiac arrhythmias, heart attack, stroke and death.”he added.
Black, a toxicologist, started testing the composition of StarCaps when a professional athlete requested to be tested for the said supplement. The result of the test is positive but Black did not mention the name of the athlete.”It took us a couple of Ph.Ds and a $300,000 piece of equipment to verify that Bumetanide was contained in StarCaps,” he said. “How is somebody supposed to know buying it off the shelf or off the Internet what it really contains? We spent an enormous amount of resources trying to understand this product.”
Aegis Sciences Corporation which David Black founded is just located along the corner of the Tennessee Titans headquarters in a Nashville business park. The company started in 1986 as a sports doping lab following a steroids scandal on the football team of Vanderbilt University who wanted to test all its athletes. Black didn’t want to leave town when the lab closed, so he took it private in 1990 and expanded testing for doctors tracking if patients take their pain medication, employers protecting themselves from employees using drugs, forensic work and sports.
It is estimated that the laboratory helped exonerate more than 60 athletes which include the Olympic sprinter Butch Reynolds in the early 1990s. They also conducted lab tests for about 80 Division I-A universities and NASCAR. However, testing for the NFL ended in 1990 when then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue moved testing to a lab approved by the International Olympic Committee. the commissioner named Dr. John Lombardo as the league’s adviser on steroids.
Although testing for the NFL players were removed from his laboratory, the company continue to expand because of increasing demand for similar tests. the company has 130 employees including 65 drug testers and conducting an average of 3000 tests each week. Drugs tests would cost from $30 to $3,000.
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