SARMs Supplement Researchers Call For Online Sales Crackdown
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
A JAMA study finds SARMs in 23 of 44 products marketed online as containing the steroid-like ingredient while the rest contained other unapproved drugs and substances. Sports medicine and doping researchers say e-commerce provides cover for firms to sell the risky bodybuilding drugs without consequence.
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