Sports Supplements: Medicine or Food? Australia Debates
Executive Summary
Following a string of cases in Australia in which illegal prescription medicines and toxic or dangerous substances have been found in sports supplements, the country's medicines agency is consulting on whether these products should be in future regulated as medicines.
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