Limiting Sport Supplement Sales To Minors Recommended By More Researchers
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
More than two-thirds of health food stores’ staff recommended creatine to researchers posing as teen athletes, results that researchers say should prompt pediatricians and retailers to educate young people on the risk of creatine and push states to ban sales of the substance to minors.
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