Some contaminated dietary supplements lead to positives for steroids

The WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto tested positive for Nandrolone. The drug testing was conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA).
 Andre Berto had to fight against Victor Ortiz on June 23, 2012 in Los Angeles. This boxer agreed to submit to random drug testing before the match. Both “A” and “B” urine samples indicated about usage of Nandrolone.
It was already the second time this month, when the VADA tested fighters and caught them administering steroids. The first of them was the boxer Lamont Peterson. He was scheduled to meet Amir Khan. It is quite ironically that Peterson requested random blood and urine testing. The drug test conducted by the VADA showed that Peterson had testosterone of exogenous origin some weeks before the match.
The tests conducted by the VADA influenced greatly on financial position of several companies. For example, Golden Boy Promotions lost significant potential profit due to positives of Lamont Peterson. It was set 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 Andre Berto will be possibly replaced by another boxer who will meet Ortiz.
As for the boxer Andre Berto, he didn’t explain what had led to his positives. This boxer hired the attorney Howard Jacobs that would represent and defeat him.
Andre Berto said that he had never administered steroids. So, he noted that he investigated with his attorney what could lead to positives for steroids. Andre Berto concluded that he had never cheated; he succeeded in sport due to hard work and dedication.
The attorney Howard Jacobs was hired by numerous other athletes who turned out to be victims of fake nutritional supplements.
It is claimed that since the steroid Nandrolone has quite long half life and it is detected easily, it isn’t very popular among doping sportspeople. But it has been displayed many times that some dietary supplements contained the compound nandrolone which led to positives for steroids. But since sometimes not every compound is written on the label, sportspersons become victims of contaminated sport supplements.