Leveraging Your NSF Certification: Now that you've received NSF Certification ... why not leverage the Mark to your advantage.
There's a reason why Major League Baseball (MLB), the MLB Players' Association, National Football League (NFL), the NFL Players' Association, PGA, LPGA, and the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sports (CCES) have all chosen NSF Certified for Sport™ to ensure the products their athletes use are safe. Others may claim to be as thorough as NSF's Athletic Banned Substances Program, but only NSF offers a comprehensive program designed for participating manufacturers and their products that includes product testing for banned substances, label content confirmation, formulation and label review, production facility, and supplier inspections, as well as ongoing monitoring in line with substance prohibitive lists: WADA, NSF Annex A, NFL, MLB, and NCAA. NSF's service offering is unique at every stage of the game - comprehensive, credible, and complete. Let's just see how:
| Key Differences | NSF Athletic Banned Substances Program www.nsfsport.com | HFL Informed Choices Program |
|---|---|---|
| Banned Substance Screening | 142 banned analytes | 25 banned analytes |
| Substance Prohibited Lists | WADA, NSF Annex A, NFL, MLB, NCAA | WADA only |
| Label Claim Review | What's on the label is in the bottle; Annual check | None |
| Toxicology Review | Verifies product formulation and marketing claims, substantiated by sound science; Annual check | None |
| Contaminant Review | Annual check | None |
| Facility Inspection | 2 GMP audits annually; Banned substance verification on site | None |
| Global Capabilities | USA - China - Europe | UK |
| Testing Location | USA - on your doorstep | UK - 3460 miles away |
| Availability | USA - EST here and now | UK - GMT +5 hours |
| Organization Recognition | 7 - NFL, NFLPA, MLB, MLBPA, PGA, LPGA and CCES | 2 - UK Sport and British Athletics Commission |
| Advisory Panels | NSF Dietary Supplement Joint Committee and the CPHC | Six member board |
| Website | Latest global industry news | UK news |
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NSF has a successful 60-year history of providing certification programs for food, water, and consumer goods. The NSF Athletic Banned Substances Program builds on NSF's expertise in the areas of dietary supplements and functional foods. In fact, NSF developed the only accredited American National Standard to certify dietary supplements, NSF/ANSI 173 and actively maintains the standard even today, using its ISO 17025 accredited laboratories and extensive manufacturing process evaluation to ensure the actual product contents match those printed on the label.
Now you've got peace of mind. Game on.