This month Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency caught 2 boxers that had used steroids

The Haitian-American professional boxer Andre Berto tested positive for Nandrolone. The drug testing was conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA).
 Andre Berto was scheduled to fight against Victor Ortiz on June 23, 2012 in Los Angeles. This boxer agreed to submit to random drug testing before the fight. T: E ratio method and carbon isotope ratio testing were used; they both indicated about usage of Nandrolone.
It was already the second time this month, when the VADA tested boxers and caught them taking steroids. The first of them was the boxer Lamont Peterson. He was scheduled to fight against Amir Khan. It is quite ironically that Peterson requested random blood and urine testing. A carbon isotope ratio test conducted by the VADA indicated that exogenous testosterone was in this boxer’s system certain weeks before the fight.
The tests conducted by the VADA influenced greatly on financial position of several companies. For example, Golden Boy Promotions lost significant potential profit due to positives of Lamont Peterson. It was estimated by the CEO of the company Richard Schaeffer that the company lost 250, 000 dollars.
The cancelation of the fight between Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz will probably not cost so much because Andre Berto will be possibly replaced by another boxer who will fight against Ortiz.
The boxer Andre Berto didn’t explain why he tested positive. This fighter hired the attorney Howard Jacobs who would represent and defeat him.
Berto said that he had never taken steroids. So, he noticed that he investigated with his attorney what could lead to positives for steroids. The fighter Andre Berto concluded that he had never cheated; he succeeded in sport because of hard work and dedication.
The attorney Howard Jacobs was hired by many other athletes that turned out to be victims of contaminated nutritional supplements.
It is said that since Nandrolone has too long half life and it is detected easily, it is not widespread among doping sportspeople. But it has been shown many times that several nutritional supplements contained the compound nandrolone that caused positives for steroids. But since sometimes not each compound is listed on the label, athletes become victims of contaminated dietary supplements.