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The Dendrobium Craze, Or What Happens if You Ignore the Obvious Difference Between "A" and "B" - Latest Study: At Best Trace Amounts of "Meth Analog" in DS Craze

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DS Craze was not the only dendobrium containing supplement that disappeared from the market, when "the craze" about meth in dietary supplements broke lose. You will certainly remember the craze about Craze and other dendrobium based pre-workout supplements. In an article published in Drug Testing and Analysis on October 14, 2013, scientists from Harvard Medical School and NSF International , a respected third-party testing organization, reported the presence of the "methamphetamine analog" N,α-diethyl-phenylethylamine (N,α-DEPEA) in three samples of Driven Sports' flagship pre-workout product "Craze" they purchased from various retailers. Using what they considered established reference standards and sensitive analytical methods, Cohen et al. found what they thought was N,α-DEPEA at concentrations ranging from 21 to 35 mg per serving in the supplements (Cohen. 2013) Citrulline is another pre-workout ingredient - a 100% safe one ;-) Ci...

The European Horse Meat Scandal - Looking Beyond the Hysteria: Why "Horse-Powered" Lasagna Would Actually be Nutritionally Superior to Its "Beefed-Up" Counterpart

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Lots of good meats on Fury from the slaughterhouse ;-) I am not sure if all of the US and other international students of the SuppVersity have already gotten wind of the huge "scandal" *rofl* about horse meat in convenient foods. In case you ain't no clue what I am talking about, here is the gist: About a week ago the first reports surfaced that some of the junk... ah, I mean instant meals that are sold by the largest supermarket chains in Europe and produced by such "reputable" companies as Nestlé and Co. are "adulterated" with horse meat (if you want to, you can read up on the whole story in the online version of the NY Times ; read more ). Actually things started out with frozen Lasagna and now horse meat appears to be in everything the average convenient food lover packs into his shopping basket. Now, frozen lasagna (unless self-prepared) is nothing I would expect the average SuppVersity reader to consume on a regular basis, anyway. And the...
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