Apr 28, 2011
Apr 28, 2011
Bodybuilding.com has recently dispatched an email to their vendors with new rules concerning what ingredients they will accept and what products they are going to continue carrying. They have officially announced that they will no longer carry any future products that contain usnic acid, which I can only imagine was a direct result of the Species Nutrition lawsuit that concerned liver failure in a customer who consumed their usnic acid based fat burner. As Bodybuilding.com has already dropped that product from their store, didn’t carry any other products with the ingredient, and the product has been reformulated to not contain the ingredient any longer, the discontinuance of this ingredient isn’t going to have any impact whatsoever.
They’re also not accepting any products containing piracetam, which is (once again) a bit of a futile gesture since they’re not selling it at the moment. The 3,7-keto DHEA ban is going to effect quite a few products, but none are really category leaders, and quite a few are of the single-ingredient type, so obviously they can’t simply be reformulated. The 3,3- (and 3,5) Diiodo-L-Thyronine ban is also going to effect several products, most notably Nutrex’s Lipo-6 Black, which is a top 10 selling product in the fat loss category. However, it’s long overdue for a reformulation, as I can remember Nutrex’s original Lipo-6 dominating the overall top 10 best-seller category a few years back, with the number one spot for numerous years. It was actually fat loss product of the year from 2005-2007. Now, the company’s premium fat-burner clings to a #10 spot in the fat loss category (*yes, they had the overall best selling product for Bodybuilding.com as a whole, and now they’re at the bottom of the top ten in the fat-loss category).
They’ve also banned tetradecylthioacetic acid (TTA) and methyltetradecylthioacetic acid (MTTA). I’m not entirely sure about the 
reasoning here, although I’d speculate this decision was based on the former being shown to be mildly toxic in rodents after 3 months of administration. To be honest, and I have to admit that I didn’t do much more than skim a single study here, the stuff actually looks like a very healthy product. Since it’s derived from fatty acids, I’d suspect it’s DSHEA compliant, but again, I haven’t done a ton of research into this ingredient. I know that it’s something I’d have no problem using personally.
And they’ve also banned Carbamyl-L-Glutamate. Again, I can’t really speculate on the reasoning here, as I’m pretty much as in the dark as the rest 
of you.
They’ve also put a 3g/day serving size limit on D-Aspartic Acid, which doesn’t matter much because every manufacturer suggests that dose anyway. It also appears that Bodybuilding.com has been liberally asking for DSHEA compliance arguments for numerous ingredients as well as safety data…so it could be that this list is not comprehensive, and is just a taste of what’s to come.
