Sentence for supplements distributor

A Centennial supplements distributor has been sentenced by a federal judge to a year’s probation, ordered it to forfeit $107,000, and fined it $50,000 for a charge of mail fraud connected to the distribution of steroids.

The announcement was recently made by U.S. Attorney for Colorado John Walsh.

From Bizjournals.com:

Federal prosecutors accused Axis Labs of mail-order sales in 2008 and 2009 of a muscle-building and weight-loss product called Monster Caps, which the company purported was a dietary supplement that didn’t need to be prescribed by a doctor.

Monster Caps contained undeclared synthetic anabolic steroids and should have been sold like a regulated drug and approved for sale by Food & Drug Administration, investigators alleged.

U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel sentenced the company that pleaded guilty to the single count on Oct. 13, 2011.