Wall of China greatly porous for steroids

The emerging economic power that is China, exports toys with lead paint, contaminated pet food, counterfeit medicines, and anabolic steroids.  The Chinese appear to be pumping-up their economy with steroids and HGH...tons of the sleazy stuff.

A great invesigatory story by a New York Times team came out this morning.  The burgeoning Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical surely needs some ethical standards, or some cuffing about the ears.

...Chinese chemical companies made the journey to the annual show as well, including one manufacturer recently accused by American authorities of supplying steroids to illegal underground labs and another whose representative was arrested at the 2006 trade show for patent violations. Also attending were two exporters owned by China’s government that had sold poison mislabeled as a drug ingredient, which killed nearly 200 people and injured countless others in Haiti and in Panama.

The Chinese join illicit American lab, Mexican pharmacies, and the Russian mafia in supplying drugs to the athletes and bodybuilders who abuse them.  Should there be a display at Cooperstown honoring these supply sources?  Why not, we suspect these steroids found their way into the NFL's Pro Bowl, as well as contributed to a few MLB home runs.

Just days before the Milan trade show, United States officials made an announcement that brought home the global reach and attendant dangers of China’s expanding chemical industry. The officials disclosed that they had dismantled a 27-state underground network for steroids and human growth hormone, arresting 124 people in “Operation Raw Deal.”

The supply trail almost always led to China. Thirty-seven companies there supplied virtually all of the bulk chemicals, federal officials said...

As serious as the accusations are in Operation Raw Deal, health experts say they believe that counterfeit drugs, particularly those sold on the Internet, pose a greater threat to a broader segment of the American public.

One more brick in the foundation that supports ilegal PED use in the USA.  The Chinese are also involved in those counterfeit PEDs some frustrated abuses buy:

“The facts are irrefutable,” Mr. Theriault, the former Pfizer official, told Congress. “The importation of counterfeit, infringing, misbranded and unapproved pharmaceutical products in the United States is increasing exponentially.” Pfizer makes Viagra, one of the drugs most oftn counterfeited.

Overall, it appears that there will always be suppliers for the illicit PED market.  Good money there.