To meet the growing demands of athletes, coaches and all those concerned about banned substances in sports supplements, NSF International created the new NSF Athletic Banned Substances Program, also known as Certified for Sport™. This new NSF program is a focused solution designed to minimize the risk that a dietary supplement or sports nutrition product contains banned substances.

The program objective is to certify that participating manufacturers of sports supplements have met NSF's stringent independent certification process guidelines, which were developed through a consensus process involving regulatory, industry and consumer groups. A key component of this program will be a specially designed NSF Mark on each product label to show athletes, coaches and consumers that a sports supplement has met NSF's comprehensive program guidelines.

This program, which focuses primarily on the sports supplement manufacturing and sourcing process, provides key preventive measures to:

• Certify high standards of quality in ingredients and manufacturing methods
• Protect against adulteration or contamination of products
• Verify label claims regarding product contents
• Identify athletic banned substances in the finished product or ingredients

About NSF International

NSF International, an independent, not-for-profit organization, helps protect you by certifying products and writing standards for dietary supplements, food, water, air and consumer goods (www.nsf.org)

As a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, NSF is the leading global provider of public health and safety risk management solutions. Not only do we provide product certification and safety audits for the food and water industries, NSF International is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Food Safety and for Drinking Water Safety and Treatment. NSF offices and state-of-the-art testing facilities are headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA).