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In the most unequivocal acknowledgement yet that the supposedly all-natural StarCaps product has been spiked with Bumetanide, the manufacturer of the substance has issued an “urgent nationwide recall” of the product.
The recall is outlined in a release posted on the FDA web site.
But the recall applies only to one specific lot: 12/2011 — 84810. The lot includes 1,974 bottles distributed from August 2008 through October 30, 2008.
Previously, Balanced Health Products, Inc. had merely suspended shipments of StarCaps. The front page of the StarCaps web site mentions the suspension of shipments, but says nothing about the recall.
November 26th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Sounds good for the VIKES!
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November 26th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I smell lawsuit…
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November 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
If they suspend players for using this product, it would be utterly ridiculous. How is a player supposed to know what he puts in his body if the substances aren’t even mentioned on the label and were not on “the list” of supposed ban supplements by the NFL. Even if the players would have called the hotline for product checks. This product would not have been on the list. So, any suspensions awarded after all of this information has come out would be the biggest joke of the Goodell adminstration. It would even be a little worse than all of his terrible fines he has handed out this year for trying to turn the league into 2 hand touch football.
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November 26th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
“How are players supposed to know what they put in their bodies when the label doesn’t tell them whats in it”? I guess the same way any person with a brain does in that situation, THEY DON’T TAKE IT! I mean i hear that crack cocaine is great for weight loss but since the FDA doesn’t seem fit to include a label and i don’t trust the crack dealer at his word then i choose not to take it. Is this really a difficult concept to understand? Are you the guy who sued McDonalds over the “hot” coffee?
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November 26th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Doesn’t change a thing. Bumetanide was found in it last year. If the players had kept track of what was going on , they would have known it. They didn’t,,,,, LET THEM SIT.
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November 26th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
PS…
How many of these guys were using Bumetanide as a masking agent and now StarCaps gives them an out?
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November 26th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Not so fast Vike fans, this is common procedure in the case of any drug that has “suspected ” adulteration. They will bring them in and tests will be conducted on the returned products. So if they find no Bumantidine in unopened bottles, or unadultered doses, then I would suspect a number of people will be getting an early Christmas break. On the otherhand, if they do find some then the top people at the manufacturing company will find their wallets lighter, and will probably be being fitted with free orange suits, and getting three free meals a day for a while. As potent a diuretic as this is could lead to serious electrolyte imbalances and/or heart beat irregularites, so it could almost be called assault, or attempted murder, in giving it to an unsuspecting health person.
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November 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Are we going to rehash this thing again?
1. There’s no way a player will have more resources than the league in determining something is ’safe’. Yet the onus is on the player.
2. There’s no way to certify everything a player consumes. Is a player to be held responsible if he eats something that creates a metabolite that gets flagged in a test, and it’s some common everyday item? Common sense says hell no.
3. The league’s own expert knew that starcaps were bad and didn’t inform anyone.
4. The league could have avoided all of this with a more comprehensive testing regimen.
5. The league could have done other tests for specific metabolites directly related to steroid/hgh use but, from everything that is known, didn’t.
6. The leagues banned substance list is incomplete and still provides ways for players to mask steroid or hgh use.
The league is off-side. The company is turtling. Some of the players are willing to sue and put the entire mess in full public disclosure (not the actions of a guilty person). Come on! What kind of picture does that paint?
The league’s whole approach to this thing is wrong. They know it, and they’re trying to save face. They need to test more frequently, all year long, and all of this goes away. Any other approach and there will be truck-sized holes open for abuse. For whatever reason they want a policy that is incomplete, ripe for abuse while still being standard-bearers for anti-doping. They want to have their cake and eat it too. It’s an untenable position.
Now they’re likely going to be facing legal action, the costs of which will far exceed any additional cost associated with more complete testing. Ridiculous. They need to suck it up, brush this under the carpet and fix their policy. The sooner the better.
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November 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
ok greyhound dumba**, pretty much every nfl players takes supplements to help their bodies physically. How are they suppose to know if theirs something illegal in them if the ingredient list doesn’t mention anything on it when it is suppose to be. These guys aren’t pharamacists by any means. I know they may not be the smartest but I don’t them at all and the NFL should have been much more aware of this faulty product if it could cause such serious damage to a person from its faulty ingredient list. Either way this company will be sued for a lot and I wouldn’t want to be in managements position ha.
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November 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Also at the event was the author of “Nikki Haskell’s Star Diet” (StarCaps)
“I am one of the most famous Jewish women entrepreneurs” Haskell said.
“I’m the diet diva,” she told me during the champagne reception. “I make killer matzo balls and world-class chicken soup…. And I will match my ‘black belt’ brisket against anybody’s brisket…. I’ve had Passover dinners for the likes of Joan Collins, Red Buttons, Suzanne Pleshette — and I always serve brisket.”
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November 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
A station Minneapolis had this last night… saying it could be good news for the Williamses.
http://community.myfoxtwincities.com/blogs/category/SPORTS
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November 26th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Well Berg1597, i guess i didn’t make it simple enough for you the first time around so here it goes again. Your saying that players should be able to take anything in the world from anywhere so long as the NFL doesn’t have it on one of its lists? Thats what i’m hearing from you?
Are you aware that non FDA approved supplements can contain ANYTHING and that new ones pop up everyday. You think that the league should devote all of its time to round the clock testing of these supplements because thats what it would take to test them all if it were even possible. You think thats what the NFL should be doing rather than simply stating the obvious to its less than intelligent players that DON’T TAKE ANYTHING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS! I think i was maybe 3 years old when my parents taught me this lesson, its right there with don’t get into a strangers van who offers you candy but i guess the NFL should spend more of its time teaching their players common knowledge that most of us (apparently not all ) learned before grade school.
So by your rational a player should be able to take ANYTHING they want no matter how illegal so long as the label and the league don’t specifically by name tell them that its banned or contains something that is. In other words players who test positive for cherry flavored crack should not be punished because the league didn’t specifically tell them that the cherry flavored crack was just as illegal as regular crack, grape crack and every other form and variation of the illegal drug?
How much did you scam off Mickey D’s after you burnt your little pecker off with that coffee that no one told you was hot?
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November 26th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
The league knew that Starcaps contained a banned substance back in 2006.
The league made the conscious decision not to tell this to anybody.
Now the league wants to suspend players for something that they could have prevented.
So, say your buddy’s car has faulty brakes, but he doesn’t bother to tell you this. You borrow his car, the brakes go out, and you crash and get hurt. Well, by your logic, that’s your fault, right? You should have known the exact condition of your friend’s car without him having to tell you, shouldn’t you?
Or if your girl goes out with her friends and someone slips something in her drink. Well, to hell with her, right? She should have known what she was drinking. Can’t blame the guy that spiked her drink, can you?
Nobody should be suspended for this. That should be obvious to everyone by now.
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November 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Vikes fans are so delusional. The NFL tested products and made a list of certified products that they endorsed as safe. StarCaps was tested and not certified by the NFL because it contained banned substances.
If you go off the list, you’re responsible. THE END. See ya later Venus and Serena!!
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November 26th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I didn’t realize that these players were slipped this substance unknowingly. I thought they all willing took it not knowing what it contained (or just maybe they did and took it anyway). Also, if the league knew it contained a banned substance then the players should have done their own homework on the drug before they took it (they have a hot line for christ sakes just for this purpose).
As far as borrowing your friends car with no brakes. Yes, it is still your fault if you kill someone driving it and if your buddy is the kind of guy to hide something like that from you then maybe you shouldn’t be boring his car in the first place genius.
How do you guys live your lives without warning signs on everything? Are you people the reason that they have to put warning signs on plastic bags to not put them over your head? I am really losing faith in humanity here people. please tell me that not everyone is this stupid?
To answer your other question …. YES, if my girl was at a club and she left her drink unattended and did something stupid as a result of it then YES F HER because she is obviously too stupid to be involved with and dumb things continually happen to stupid people. Or as your stupid people like to refer to it as “bad luck”. Its my experience that bad luck is often avoided by making intelligent decisions. Just something to think on the next time your drunken driving and the police arrest you even though no one may have officially informed you that evening that 20 shots of whiskey can lead to intoxication but i guess since the bartender didn’t show you the the label that states this then it must not have been common knowledge and you should go free? I pity you guys if your really this stupid.
The “no one told me” defense is always followed by the “ignorance of the law is no excuse” speech which i’m sure you will get accustomed to hearing if you continue to not take any initiative to educate yourself on matters that can effect your livelihood.
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November 26th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Lets say somebody puts poison in tylenol, and people
die. The poison was not listed on the bottle! But I
guess its their fault because they didnt go into their lab ( everyone has one in their basement ) and test it.
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November 26th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Greyhound:
You are a fan of which team ?
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November 26th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
This smells like damage control and/or looking for an out by starcaps.
Too little, too late……..controled substance their “all natural” product for years makes them toast
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November 26th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
“Also, if the league knew it contained a banned substance then the players should have done their own homework on the drug before they took it (they have a hot line for christ sakes just for this purpose).”
You’ve obviously missed the part where Florio and everyone else with any common sense said that THE LEAGUE KNEW THAT STARCAPS CONTAINED THIS SUBSTANCE AND WITHHELD THAT FACT FROM THE NFLPA. They didn’t tell their players, and they didn’t tell their little sham “hotline,” either. So, if anyone would have called their stupid hotline (whenever anyone was actually there to answer the phone), they would have been told that StarCaps were a-ok.
The league knew StarCaps contained this substance in 2006. It’s 2008 now, and nobody had been told. That’s stupid and irresponsible on the part of the league. Bottom line.
Anyone that thinks anyone should be suspended in this case is either an idiot or a Packer fan. . .not that those two things are in any way mutually exclusive. You’d think that after the performance their team put on this past Monday night that Packer fans would worry about their team rather than exercise the unhealthy obsession with Minnesota that all Packer fans have.
In fact. . .hold on a second. . .yes, the New Orleans Saints have just scored again.
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November 26th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
“Greyhound:
You are a fan of which team ?”
I’m guessing that he’s an idiot Packer fan (but I repeat myself) that, for some reason, is more concerned with the Minnesota Vikings than the fact that his team’s stellar, outstanding defense just got half a hundred dropped on them by the Saints on Monday night.
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November 26th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
it doesn’t matter what team Greyhound is a fan of …being a fan of a certain team has nothing to do with this…he is trying to explain to some people,who are dilussional about the matter,in a simplistic way so they can actually grasp who is responsible and what actually should happen to these players…it’s not about i cheer for minnesota or new orleans so therefore these players are not responsible and should be let off the hook
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November 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am
sorry Gonz but Florio has been known to be wrong about a few things so chill out til actual facts come out about this …there are about a dozen different stories out there and Cornwell is the only one who has said anything about the knowledge about the test in 2006 and that being said from a lawyers mouth trying to look good for his client(s) so i will not put much stock in those remarks either…but i do know that it was written in the St Paul Pioneer Press that Pat Williams stated to the Pioneer Press that he did not have his appeal hearing with Kevin Williams because his situation was different than Kevin’s and that’s all he would say…so take that for whatever that means…Florio stated that they didn’t have their hearings together because they were being represented by different lawyers…WRONG
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November 27th, 2008 at 2:01 am
hender:
How do you know? You say one thing , then another.
You are right about the fact that all we know is what cornwell said. Other than that you could be…WRONG!
And it does matter what team your a fan of.
WHAT ABOUT YOU HENDER?
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November 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Why take an unnecessary and unhealthy product like Starcaps??
Starcaps by definition was taken to cheat. A dehydrating compound like Starcaps reduces the lifegiving water in the body.
Whether a cheating weight loss or a cheating masking agent for who knows what compounds, it is intended for unnatural purposes.
Suspensions and discipline are clearly justified.
The fat lazy cheaters will have to lose weight the old fashioned way.
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November 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
It’s amazing to see these delusional Vikings fans make excuses. I suppose when you’ve set the bar for one of the biggest chokers in the NFL over the franchise history, it’s understandable. Still…if it was one of their rivals like the Bears or Packers, they would no doubt be screaming for suspensions, rather than make excuses.
What part don’t you understand when it comes to the CBA? It CLEARLY states that the NFL has a list that has all the substances that were tested as being safe. They tested StarCaps in 2006 and obviously found reason to not put it on the safe list. They also stated that if you take something that’s not on the list, you’re responsible if it has a tainted substance. If it isn’t on the list, don’t put it in your body. How hard is that to comprehend?
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