{"id":3319,"date":"2010-03-12T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2010-03-12T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T05:08:16","slug":"baseball-union-succeeds-where-john-mccain-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/baseball-union-succeeds-where-john-mccain-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Union succeeds where John McCain fails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since Congress won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t protect you\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor major league baseball players\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom dangerous supplements, the Major League Baseball Players Union has just sent out a list of 104 supplements\u00c2\u00a0its players should avoid.<\/a><\/p>\n

The union terms the supplements \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dangerous\/contaminated,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a clear an attempt help its players steer clear of substances that would falsely test positive for performance enhancing drugs. A previous version of this list\u00c2\u00a0distributed to players was called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Non-Exclusive List of Potentially Contaminated Nutritional Supplements,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but it only listed 21 supplements.<\/p>\n

The list was circulated Tuesday, a day after John McCain withdrew support for his own bill<\/a> that would have required supplement makers to list the ingredient of their products on their labels. The bill also would have required supplement makers to report adverse effects from using their products\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding little things like liver failure, heart attacks, and deaths\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich they currently don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to do. All four professional leagues and their unions have been pushing for years for the kind of legislation that McCain just killed.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baseball players are held responsible for any positive drug tests that might occur\u00c2\u00a0from using dietary supplements that contain banned substances\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven though there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way for them to know the supplements are tainted,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Victor Conte, who now heads up SNAC System, told me. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At least this list\u00c2\u00a0tells them which supplements should definitely to be avoided.\u00c2\u00a0But this doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that there are other supplements that could cause problems.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Over at Digg.com, several readers of my story on McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flip flop<\/a> wrote that I was sensationalizing the issue, insisting that supplement makers would never put illegal or banned substances in products that are easily purchased in health food stores and over the internet.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the baseball players union disagrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Congress won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t protect you\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor major league baseball players\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom dangerous supplements, the Major League Baseball Players Union has just sent out a list of 104 supplements\u00c2\u00a0its players should avoid. The union terms the supplements \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dangerous\/contaminated,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a clear an attempt help its players steer clear of substances that would falsely test positive for performance enhancing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4782,4774,4783,4778,4779,4780,4499,4510,4784,4496,741,4501,191,1953,4776,4777,975,4781,4505,4502,4775],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-adverse-effects","tag-baseball-players-union","tag-deaths","tag-dietary-supplements","tag-drug-tests","tag-flip-flop","tag-health-food-stores","tag-heart-attacks","tag-image-caption","tag-john-mccain","tag-league-baseball-players","tag-liver-failure","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-players","tag-major-league-baseball-players-union","tag-nutritional-supplements","tag-performance-enhancing-drugs","tag-previous-version","tag-professional-leagues","tag-supplement-makers","tag-victor-conte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t