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Article: Deerfield firm suspected of selling mislabeled hormones, steroids over the web.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2005
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Byline: Rafael A. Olmeda
Feb. 17--Federal agents who raided a Deerfield Beach drug company Tuesday were looking for mislabeled human-growth hormones and anabolic steroids sold without valid prescriptions, according to search warrants released by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami on Wednesday.
Undercover investigators from the Food and Drug Administration went onto the Internet Web site of PowerMedica last summer and ordered Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, according to an affidavit accompanying the search warrants. The package arrived at a FDA agent's address with instructions and an invoice, including a form indicating that the steroid was prescribed ...