It might be weird for me to do it, but I like to ask the folks who manufacture the supplements I am thinking about taking to show their homework. NOW Foods actually told a good story there. While it’s not NSF certified, they claimed to have an also-ran certification called “Informed Sports Testing”. Great! That must mean something…

Actually, it doesn’t… It’s just empty words because when I asked NOW Food to provide a COA for a sample batch, this was the response I received:

🤯… How is that in any way acceptable? The entire point of certifying anything is to get the paper that you can show to anyone who asks to prove that something is what it claims to be. Whether that’s a supplement, or a professional certification. That’s why we do it.

I see this as worse than making certification claims at all. It’s a form of false advertising. Not good enough, NOW… Not good enough.