2. Trust the vitamin industry to self-regulate ... but businesses haven't displayed any consistency in self-regulation.
3. Trust a third party testing agency to certify vitamins (like UL does for consumer products) ... but third party agencies have been shown in the past to become co-opted by the companies they are supposed to be regulating.
4. Give up and let athletes take whatever they want at their own risk ... but then children will be encouraged to take these drugs as well in order to compete at the level necessary to get into college and professional programs.
5. Pray for an overall increase in human honesty and decency.
I’m wondering if the prayers of a few athletes have just been answered. I mean, shazaam, all of a sudden a lot who have tested positive for steroids just learned that the vitamin they were taking was tainted! And if the government is this sloppy on one vitamin, how sloppy have they been on OTHER products?
A better sports regulatory scheme would be to let the professional athletes decide what drugs/supplements are acceptable and at what dosages. It’s their bodies. Once the rules and enforcement procedures are in place all this nannyism goes away.
They can annually review the medical literature and their own experiences and alter the schedule and doses as needed. This is getting silly.