Excerpts from a 2000 article that demonstrates elevated Nandrolone from boar meat.
From the abstract: '19-NA and 19-NE concentrations in urine reached 3.1 to 7.5 mg/L nearby [sic] 10 hours after boar tissue consumption.
Levels returned to endogenous values 24 hours after.'
From the abstract: 'We have thus proved that eating tissues of non-castrated male pork (in which 17bnandrolone is present) might induce some false accusations of the abuse of nandrolone in antidoping.''
From the experimental section: 'The total amount consumed per person was 310 g of the prepared meat, equivalent to 375 g raw material (ca 90 g of kidney, liver, heart and meat)'
From the quantification section: 'In the three individuals, almost the same urinary excretion profiles were observed. Indeed, 24 hours after boar intake the residue levels returned to their original concentrations, i.e. their endogenous values.'
My conclusions:
1. Houlihan happened to consume pork 10 hours before the test, the exact time frame quoted in the abstract that showed peak Nandrolone concentrations in the study. This is likely no coincidence.
2. In the experiment, the three particpants each consumed 310g (more than 3/4 of a pound raw) of non-castrated male pork. This is not the pork you get at most restaurants, nowhere near a typical serving size in a burrito, and not the result of trace contamination in the food supply. The lawyer suggested 2% of the pork supply comes from non-castrated boar meat and therefore could have contaminated Houlihan's burrito, which does not seem plausible once you realize how much contaminated boar meat needs to be consumed to trigger a 5.0 ug/L result.
3. The levels in the three participants returned to normal after 24 hours, down to about 0.1 ug/L or less, while they peaked at 3.1-7.5 ug/L. Schumacher made reference to 'exceedingly small amounts' of Nandrolone, which is misleading. It's 2.5x the legal limit, and orders of magnitude higher than concentrations measured in this study both before contaminated meat consumption, and 24 hrs after contaminated meat consumption.
We don't know whether or not Houlihan is guilty. But Houlihan and her support team have definitively used misleading statements to gain public support.