Tjeerd wrote:
Minimal concentrations like this can almost only be caused by contaminated supplements. This is confirmed by scientific papers from professor Geyer of the Cologne Laboratory where the A sample was tested. These publications demonstrate that many (especially American) supplements are contaminated by high concentrations of the observed anabolic. A shame really for this nice athlete.....
In an earlier post, I acknowledged that this particular drug has been found in supplements that were manufactured in the United States. At the same time, however, I am pretty sure that the drug has not been manufactured in the U.S. or western Europe for at least five or six years, so contamination from a supplement manufactured in the U.S. seems highly unlikely in this case, unless the athlete was using a very old batch of supplements. In any event, I do not believe that Vroemen has even proposed the possibility of contaminated supplements, much less produced any such supplements for chemical analysis.
(By the way, although I'm generally impervious to expressions of anti-American sentiment, which are often entirely warranted, yours is rather odious.)