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the entire supplements market should be regulated the same way food, drink and drugs are.
In general, they are. The "problem" isn't regulation, its customers shopping around for either a foreign regulatory regime or an unscrupulous supplier in order to get something not available through local, compliant, channels.
The sporting regulations are different, as they prohibit many things which are permitted ingredients or impurities in food or pharmaceuticals. Any fule kno that if you're subject to anti-doping controls, you should source any supplements from specialist suppliers who work to higher standards than those required by law.
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higher standards than those required by law
this is where it gets tricky
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Any fule kno that if you're subject to anti-doping controls, you should source any supplements from specialist suppliers who work to higher standards than those required by law.
Few years back I went to get some stuff to help a bad cold and the pharmacist saw I was on a bike and asked me if I raced as what she was selling me was most definitely banned. That said, maybe it was a barely hidden upsell attempt to get me to buy more.
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The "problem" isn't regulation
For the most part it is. There's no risk for suppliers if they contaminate (knowingly or unknowingly) their products. People cheating by going looking for dodgy shit is a separate matter.
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I think the entire supplements market should be regulated the same way food, drink and drugs are. It's a fucking joke the claims they can make with no one policing what's actually in the product. This isn't the first study to show that supps contain either nothing of what they claim, less than what they claim, more of what they claim or something completely different to what they claim is in them. The whole industry is a fucking joke.