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You should, in fairness, also post the subsequent story, where consultations with Health Canada caused the federal prosecutor to drop the charges:

Steroid Trafficking Charges Dropped;
Sacheli, Sarah. The Windsor Star. 11 May 2005

A local store owner says he feels vindicated, but still unfairly treated, after drug trafficking charges were dropped in court this week.

Bassem Bahige Chaaban, 64, owner of two Edge Nutrition stores in the city, was charged last year with possessing an anabolic steroid for the purpose of trafficking and trafficking an anabolic steroid.

He insists police should have never laid the charges in the first place. "It was not illegal," he said Tuesday of a muscle-building dietary supplement called M-Test seized by police last year.

Chaaban said he feels he was persecuted by police. He said police should have had the substance tested before laying charges. Instead, he says, they seized more than $100,000 of product form his stores and kept it for months after chemical testing showed it did not contain an illegal compound.

"They should have retuned it as soon as they learned it wasn't illegal."

Chaaban said his arrest and the ensuring publicity hurt business. "Everybody thinks I'm a crook," he said.

Crown prosecutor Richard Pollock said all charges were dropped after consultation with Health Canada. "The chemical analysis raised a doubt whether it was an anabolic steroid."

(Copyright The Windsor Star 2005).