NPA’s TruLabel program
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Vitamin Shoppe's Body Tech 100% Pure Creatine caps and Now Foods Creatine Monohydrate 750 mg were among eight popular sports supplements found to contain no steroids or stimulants in the first independent lab test conducted under the Natural Products Association's TruLabel program, the association announces March 9. "This should give continued confidence to sports dietary supplement users that what's on the label is what's in the bottle; nothing more, nothing less," NPA says. Under the TruLabel program, supplements are randomly chosen for testing to ensure label and ingredient authenticity and accuracy; more than 23,000 product labels are currently registered as part of the program (1"The Tan Sheet" July 24, 2006, p. 6)...
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