10ml Multiple Dose Co-Vial Organon Laboratories, Cambridge, England. FDA has determined that Organon, the company with U.S. approval to make the drug, did not produce the product, either at its facilities here or in England. The counterfeit chorionic gonadotropin has not been found in legal distribution channels but only in the athletic black market. It is sold there for its alleged ability to counter certain effects such as enlarged male breasts, which occur with the misuse of steroids. When misused by athletes, steroids can not only cause enlarged breasts but also conditions ranging from cancer to testicular atrophy and sterility, arrested bone development and acne.
Steroids are chemical derivatives of testosterone, the male sex hormone.
Eight major traffickers have recently been tried and sentenced and other cases are underway.