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#AskUSADA – What is third-party certification and does USADA promote any supplements?
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So, here’s a great question we frequently see from athletes about dietary supplements. “What is third-party certification for supplements, and does USADA promote any supplements?” So, USADA recommends to athletes to reduce their risk, to use a third-party certified product. What that means is to look for the NSF Certified for Sport mark on supplements. That means the supplements have been tested for prohibited substances. This isn’t a 100 percent foolproof way of reducing your risk to zero, but it is a way to reduce your risk further from using supplement products. An athlete may see a USADA or a WADA mark on a dietary supplement, but neither USADA nor WADA review, endorse, or certify any dietary supplement.
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