Thorne Enters Consumer Market With Sports Nutrition Supplements
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Thorne Research markets supplements through health care practitioners exclusively, and previously has not offered sports nutrition products, but the firm puts the same emphasis on ingredient purity and quality manufacturing in the supplements its Thorne Performance business is selling online.
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