The BALCO scandal is a scandal involving the use of banned, performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was a San Francisco Bay Area business accused of supplying anabolic steroids to Major League Baseball players. The incident surrounds a 2002 US Federal government investigation of the laboratory.
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