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Ephedra ruling won't change NASCAR policy

Alan Jones 16 April 2005 17:19:25
 
Ephedra ruling won't change MLB, NFL, NASCAR policies
Chris Jenkins
USA TODAY

FORT WORTH — Ephedra will remain a banned substance in at least
three professional sports, even if a recent court ruling ends up putting
the controversial dietary supplement back on store shelves.

Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of labor
relations, confirmed in an e-mail that ephedra will remain on baseball's
banned substances list. MLB officials banned ephedra after Baltimore
Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler died in February 2003. Bechler collapsed
during a spring training workout, and a medical examiner said ephedra
played a role in his death.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed ephedra, which league officials
banned in 2002, would remain on the league's banned substances list.
The Washington Post quoted NFL Players Association leader Gene Upshaw
as saying, "The dangers are still there, as far as we're concerned.. .. We
have enough concerns about this. It's still going to be on our banned list."

NASCAR banned ephedra in January 2004 after a USA TODAY report
quoted one racing team's trainer as estimating that 80% of crew members
had tried supplements containing ephedra. "Based on what I've read about
the court ruling, there's no reason for us to change," NASCAR vice
president of communications Jim Hunter said Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration banned ephedra in April 2004, saying
supplements that contained the substance present "an unreasonable risk
of illness or injury."

On Thursday, a federal judge in Salt Lake City overruled the ban, which was
being challenged by a Utah supplement company. The company argued that
ephedra, which is derived from a plant found primarily in China, "has been
safely consumed" for hundreds of years, and that ephedra was wrongly
being regulated by the FDA as a drug and not a food.

The judge said the law requires the FDA to prove that a dietary supplement
is harmful, rather than having the manufacturer prove it is safe, as is
required with drugs.

Bruce Hough, president of Nutraceutical, the company that challenged the
FDA ban, told the Associated Press his company interprets the ruling to
mean that it is allowed to start selling ephedra supplements again, but said
it is too soon to say whether it will put the products back on the market.

FDA spokeswoman Kimberly Rawlings told the AP the agency is "evaluating
the decision."

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