Vitamin Shoppe, Inc., North Bergen, NJ, has earned NSF Certified for Sport certification for its True Athlete line of performance nutrition products. NSF International developed the NSF Certified for Sport program in response to growing concerns of banned substances in sports nutrition products. To earn certification, The Vitamin Shoppe’s True Athlete products underwent a rigorous testing and inspection program to verify compliance to NSF/ANSI Standard 173, the only official accredited American National Standard for dietary supplements and ingredients. This included a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility audit, label claim testing/verification and a contaminant review. NSF scientists also tested The Vitamin Shoppe’s True Athlete products for more than 165 athletic banned substances.

Certified products include: True Athlete Multivitamin for Men, True Athlete Multivitamin for Women, True Athlete ZMA (Zinc Monomethionine Aspartate) with Theanine, True Athlete Training Formula, True Athlete Kre-Alkalyn, True Athlete Natural Protein Chocolate and True Athlete Natural Protein Vanilla.