{"id":1088,"date":"2017-12-06T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2018-01-10T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:02:42","slug":"tom-bassindale-tests-steroids-for-itv-calendar-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/12\/06\/tom-bassindale-tests-steroids-for-itv-calendar-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bassindale tests steroids for ITV Calendar News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shu.ac.uk\/~\/media\/home\/research\/bmrc\/images\/tb-on-itv-news.jpg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tom Bassindale tests steroids for ITV Calendar News\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Lecturer <span style=\"color: #ba0046\"><a style=\"color: #ba0046\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/thomas-bassindale\">Tom Bassindale<\/a> <\/span>was approached by ITV News to test the contents of anabolic steroids they had obtained from an underground laboratory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Underground labs have no quality control procedures and the steroids produced do not always contain the drugs listed on the label. Tom tested the steroids provided, using BMRC\u2019s ultra-performance liquid chromatography instrument with mass spectrometry to identify the compounds present. In this case, the three vials did contain the correct ingredients, but many others do not.<\/p>\n<p>ITV Calendar News sent a news crew to watch Tom doing the testing and discussed the general laws around steroids, the possible reasons people may use them and the potential harms involved in using steroids particularly when injected. The finished clip can be viewed <span style=\"color: #ba0046\"><a style=\"color: #ba0046\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hF2LZwzCYi4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer Tom Bassindale was approached by ITV News to test the contents of anabolic steroids they had obtained from an underground laboratory. Underground labs have no quality control procedures&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8708,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,21,104,4],"tags":[208,209,361,28,362,360],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hwbheadlines","category-news","category-research","category-staffnews","tag-biomolecular-sciences-research-centre","tag-bmrc","tag-itv-news","tag-research","tag-steroids","tag-tom-bassindale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2017\/12\/TB-on-ITV-NEWS1.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-hy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/03\/27\/other-stories-to-hit-the-headlines-march-and-april\/","url_meta":{"origin":1088,"position":0},"title":"Other Stories to Hit the Headlines &#8211; March and April","author":"Anna Gunn","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Rob Copeland spoke to the Sheffield Telegraph on Cycling in Sheffield Speaking to Sheffield Telegraph, Professor Rob Copeland, Director of National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine, looks at whether Sheffield needs to become a more cycle-friendly city and how cycling can be the catalyst for Sheffield's economic growth.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In the Headlines&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In the Headlines","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/category\/news\/hwbheadlines\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2017\/03\/Dr-plumley.jpg?fit=428%2C268&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/09\/05\/volunteering-at-special-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1088,"position":1},"title":"Volunteering at Special Olympics GB Summer Games, Sheffield 2017","author":"Jane Gardner-Florence","date":"September 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Find out what happened when Rachel Davison volunteered at the Special Olympic Summer Games. 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