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Athletic Banned Substances Screened Products
About the Screening Program:
ConsumerLab.com offers the Athletic Banned Substances Screening Program to test dietary supplements, performance enhancement products, and other nutrition products for substances that could cause disqualification of athletes from competition. It was the first comprehensive program to focus on supplements, as opposed to the downstream testing of body fluids from athletes. The ConsumerLab.com screening program includes testing for banned substances, including stimulants, narcotics, anabolic agents, diuretics, masking agents, and beta-blockers.
This Screening Program is offered as an adjunct to ConsumerLab.com's Product Review testing, in which products are evaluated on other important quality parameters such as labeling, ingredient identity and quantity, proper disintegration time, spoilage, contamination with heavy metals, pesticides, industrial by-products, and spiking with pharmaceutical ingredients.
The Screening Program was originally based, in 2001, on the Olympic Movement Anti-Doping Code or the codes of other sports associations. Due to the rapid introduction in recent years of designer steroids and other performance enhancement compounds intended to avoid analytical detection, it has become increasingly difficult to obtain the chemical standards needed to comprehensively and reliably test for these substances. Consequently, in 2009, ConsumerLab.com withdrew from offering to screen products for the full WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) list of athletic banned substances. ConsumerLab.com continues to offer testing of specific athletic banned substances.
ConsumerLab.com welcomes manufacturers, sports associations, and others to participate in the Screening Program, for which there is a testing fee, and may contact Lisa Sabin, Vice President for Business Development, at lisa.sabin@consumerlab.com.
Products that Have Recently Passed Screening:
The following products have been screened for athletic banned substances. Products are listed alphabetically by name in the first column.
| PRODUCTS THAT HAVE PASSED THE CONSUMERLAB.COM ATHLETIC BANNED
SUBSTANCE SCREENING
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Product Name
(Categories for which Product was tested for identity and quality of prime ingredient. Links are to the appropriate Product Review)
| Manufacturer or Distributor
| Date Tested
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Immunocal® Nutraceutical Bonded Cysteine*
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Immunotec Research Inc.
| November 2007
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Original Limu™**
| The Limu Company, LLC.
| March 2008
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*Testing based on World Anti-Doping Code Prohibited list available in 2007.
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**Testing based on World Anti-Doping Code Prohibited list available in 2008 (modified based on availability of chemical standards).
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Unless otherwise noted, information about the products listed above is based on the samples purchased by ConsumerLab.com for this Product Review. Manufacturers may change product ingredients and information at any time, so be sure to check labels carefully when evaluating the products you use or buy. If a product's ingredients differ from what is listed above, it may not necessarily be of the same quality as what was tested. It also cannot be assumed that other products from a manufacturer or distributor listed above are of equal quality to those listed.
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