The contaminated product is a black market version of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG, which is made from human placenta. The agency said that in cooperation with the Department of Justice it has seized a supply of the underground-produced hormone but that unknown quantities of the product may already be in illicit distribution. 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.
Steroids are chemical derivatives of testosterone, the male sex hormone.
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