Craze Supplement: Meth-Like Substance Found in Product

Craze supplement is found to have a chemical that is similar to meth.

Craze, a popular body-building supplement is sold as a "performance fuel" that provides "the ultimate in pre-workout power," but researchers who studied the ingredients found that it contains a chemical found in methamphetamine. Several professional athletes had failed urine drug tests after taking the supplement, ABC reports.

Craze is sold across the U.S. The report says that it contains the methamphetamine analog N,a-diethyl-phenylethylamine (N,a-DEPEA). What's worth noting that that N,a-DEPEA is not listed on the ingredient label for the product, ABC reports.

"So I think they're playing with stimulants to try and find something that will get people juiced up, revved up to work out and make them feel better," said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Mass.. Cohen was involved in the study.

Cohen and his colleagues looked at three samples in their report. Two of them were bought online and another was from a store.

The report was released in the Drug Testing and Analysis Journal on Monday. The study was done by archers from the global public health organization NSF International, Harvard Medical School and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.

With the meth ingredient in the mix, the researchers call the supplement "a potentially dangerous designer drug," however the effect on humans are not known as it hasn't been studied yet.

The company that makes Craze, Driven Sports, told ABC that the research is not true. Driven Sports claims that in their own tests, there was no trace of the meth chemical.

Driven Sports says the "conclusions regarding the safety and composition of Craze have not changed: The product is safe and effective."

Craze was named BodyBuilding.com's New Supplement of the Year award in 2012 and it has high reviews.

It is not clear what will happen as a result of the report but they likely won't be taken off the market unless that have proved to cause harm.