There is nothing to keep clandestine labs from using published literature to manufacture these steroids for athletes, he said.
I asked him, "But you can see our concern that the Gordons could have set up a clandestine lab in a place like this?"
He learned that the chemists of the French Connection had moved clandestine labs for refining heroin from Marseilles to Sicily.
These days, the drug is made in clandestine labs in Mexico and California, or on isolated farms in states like Missouri or Iowa.
The U.S. Department of Justice claims that states that have enacted similar or more restrictive retail regulations have seen a dramatic drop in small clandestine labs.
There must be other undetected steroids out there, Dr. Catlin believes, made by clandestine labs without regard to approved safety standards or federal laws.
Agents tell me that in clandestine labs that they have raided, they have found copies of those books.
Unlike other stimulants, however, methylphenidate has not been produced in clandestine labs.
They said new information in the draft report based on on-site inspections of clandestine labs described the possibility that they were intended to provide small quantities of poisons.
Does he suspect you've stolen equipment and set up your own clandestine lab, using it to cheat death?