USA TODAY - A popular and controversial sports supplement widely sold in the USA and
other countries is secretly spiked with a chemical similar to methamphetamine
that appears to have its origins as an illicit designer recreational drug,
according to new tests by scientists in the USA and South Korea.
The test results on samples of Craze, a pre-workout powder made by New
York-based Driven Sports and marketed as containing only natural ingredients,
raise significant health and regulatory concerns, the researchers said.
The U.S. researchers also said they found the same methamphetamine-like
chemical in another supplement, Detonate, which is sold as an all-natural weight
loss pill by another company: Gaspari Nutrition.
"These are basically brand-new drugs that are being designed in clandestine
laboratories where there's absolutely no guarantee of quality control," said
Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a co-author
of the analysis of Craze samples being published today in the peer-reviewed
scientific journal Drug Testing and Analysis.
Read more on the investigation as it unfolds here.
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