WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Drug Enforcement Administration Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Rannazzisi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Drugs Subcommittee during a hearing on 'Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers' on Capitol Hill September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is considering drawing up legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration the responsibility of screening dietary suppliments for illegal steroids before they can be marketed and sold. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Drug Enforcement Administration Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Rannazzisi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Drugs Subcommittee during a hearing on 'Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers' on Capitol Hill September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is considering drawing up legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration the responsibility of screening dietary suppliments for illegal steroids before they can be marketed and sold.

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  2. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Jareem Gunter testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Drugs Subcommittee during a hearing on 'Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers' on Capitol Hill September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. A former college baseball player, Gunter suffered liver damage and was hospitalized after taking a strength building dietary supplement he says contained steroids.
  3. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Drugs Subcommittee Chairman Arlen Specter (D-PA) delivers an opening statement during a hearing on 'Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers' on Capitol Hill September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is considering drawing up legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration the responsibility of screening dietary suppliments for illegal steroids before they can be marketed and sold.
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  5. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Jareem Gunter (C) testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Drugs Subcommittee during a hearing on 'Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers' on Capitol Hill September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. A former college baseball player, Gunter suffered liver damage and was hospitalized after taking a strength building dietary supplement he says contained steroids.
  6. Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator Al Franken, D-MN, attends a hearing on Patriot Act re-authorization September 23, 2009 in the Dirksen Senate Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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  8. Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., left, listen to Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, right, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, before the committee's hearing on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
  9. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: (L-R) Office of Compliance of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Division Director Michael Levy, Drug Enforcement Administration Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Rannazzisi, United States Anti Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart, Interim Executive Director and CEO for the scientific & regulatory affairs of the National Nutritional Foods Association Daniel Fabricant and Richard Kingham, partner at Covington & Burling LLP, are sworn in before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Crime and Drugs Subcommittee during a hearing on 'Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers' on Capitol Hill September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is considering drawing up legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration the responsibility of screening dietary suppliments for illegal steroids before they can be marketed and sold.
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  11. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 29: Deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Jesse Goodman testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee September 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. Goodman testified on 'The Administration's Flu Vaccine Program: Health, Safety, and Distribution.'
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