SARM's Available Online: Do They Meet Label Claims? (*study)
by Anthony Roberts
A recently published study aimed to figure out if products being marketed online as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators actually contain the correct ingredient(s). But while the results are interesting, they are misleading.
The results of the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveal that most products marketed as SARMs do not actually contain them:
“Chemical analyses of 44 products sold via the internet as selective androgen receptor modulators revealed that only 52% contained selective androgen receptor modulators and another 39% contained another unapproved drug. In addition, 25% of products contained substances not listed on the label, 9% did not contain an active substance, and 59% contained substance amounts that differed from the label.”
In addition, most of the products examined in the study contained exactly the ingredient listed on the label. The cause for this apparent discrepancy, given only the most perfunctory attention in the text, is easily discernible:
“Some companies used the term SARM in their product label or in advertising, even though the product was not a selective androgen receptor modulator…”
More simply stated, companies have been advertising a host of non-SARM products (growth hormone secretagogues, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ agonists, etc…) incorrectly as SARMs — although correctly stating the ingredient on the label. Therefore the primary issue detected in this study lies with the incorrect classification of these ingredients as SARMs, not with the claimed ingredient not being present.
Aristotelian Classification problems aside, there were numerous deficiencies in labels not accurately reflecting the dose found in the product, even if the majority of products contained the correct ingredient. Several products were contaminated with other drugs (SERMs, etc…), some contained the wrong SARM, and a handful didn’t contain anything listed on the label or in the advertising.
Source: https://medium.com/@anthonyroberts/...-do-they-meet-label-claims-study-c58cce6c2ed8
by Anthony Roberts
A recently published study aimed to figure out if products being marketed online as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators actually contain the correct ingredient(s). But while the results are interesting, they are misleading.
The results of the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveal that most products marketed as SARMs do not actually contain them:
“Chemical analyses of 44 products sold via the internet as selective androgen receptor modulators revealed that only 52% contained selective androgen receptor modulators and another 39% contained another unapproved drug. In addition, 25% of products contained substances not listed on the label, 9% did not contain an active substance, and 59% contained substance amounts that differed from the label.”
In addition, most of the products examined in the study contained exactly the ingredient listed on the label. The cause for this apparent discrepancy, given only the most perfunctory attention in the text, is easily discernible:
“Some companies used the term SARM in their product label or in advertising, even though the product was not a selective androgen receptor modulator…”
More simply stated, companies have been advertising a host of non-SARM products (growth hormone secretagogues, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ agonists, etc…) incorrectly as SARMs — although correctly stating the ingredient on the label. Therefore the primary issue detected in this study lies with the incorrect classification of these ingredients as SARMs, not with the claimed ingredient not being present.
Aristotelian Classification problems aside, there were numerous deficiencies in labels not accurately reflecting the dose found in the product, even if the majority of products contained the correct ingredient. Several products were contaminated with other drugs (SERMs, etc…), some contained the wrong SARM, and a handful didn’t contain anything listed on the label or in the advertising.
Source: https://medium.com/@anthonyroberts/...-do-they-meet-label-claims-study-c58cce6c2ed8
