Another crackdown by the federal government took place but didn’t make the same headlines as the Bodybuilding.com one did. iFORCE Nutrition’s California offices and warehouse were raided in connection to four of their products. This story appeared on signonsandiego.com today:

Vista company raided in supplement probe
By Mark Zeigler
Union-Tribune Staff Writer

2:00 a.m. October 1, 2009

The tentacles of the federal crackdown on over-the-counter nutritional supplements laced with anabolic steroids reached into San Diego County last week, when a Vista company was raided amid suspicions it is manufacturing and selling illegal substances.

A search warrant affidavit issued Sept. 24 for iFORCE Nutrition’s Vista offices and warehouse at 1305 Hot Spring Way appears to be part of a larger federal probe into tainted supplements. That day, the Idaho headquarters of Bodybuilding.com — believed to be the largest online national distributor of supplements — also was raided.

Four of the products identified in the Idaho investigation came from iFORCE Nutrition, according to court documents. Also according to those documents, a Food and Drug Administration lab found they contained various anabolic steroids. One of them is Madol or DMT, a powerful designer steroid used by elite athletes.

David Nelson, the owner of iFORCE Nutrition, did not return a phone message left at his San Marcos home.

“These are significant steps, but unfortunately even after these raids you can still purchase Madol on places like Amazon.com , like we did on Sunday,” said Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. “The fact that the FDA has no notice on any of the ingredients coming into the market doesn’t allow them to effectively regulate them.

“It’s a true whack-a-mole approach.”

On Tuesday, Tygart testified at a congressional hearing that examined the abuse of the dietary supplement laws. And in July, the FDA issued a public health advisory for bodybuilding supplements claiming to deliver steroid-like results.

“Adverse event reports received by the FDA . . . include cases of serious liver injury, stroke, kidney failure and pulmonary embolism,” the July 28 advisory says.

Union-Tribune

Note the story reports you can buy these supplements on Amazon.com and we have yet to hear any headlines from them being raided. I wonder why that is…