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September 17, 2020 09:59 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21444201/amazon-removes-drugs-peptides-doping-listings
Amazon reportedly sold drugs used for doping months after promising to crack down
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Amazon has removed dozens of listings for peptides, drugs that can be used for doping, after an investigation from The Markup found 66 examples of such products on the site. Peptides are made naturally in the body, but synthetic versions, which can be sold in vials and then reconstituted and injected, are often used as performance-enhancing drugs since they can speed recovery from injuries.
According to The Markup, in recent weeks Amazon had been carrying listings for peptides not on the US Food and Drug Administration’s list of approved drugs, months after telling the publication in May that it would start cracking down, and several of those drugs have been classified by the World Anti-Doping Agency as doping drugs. The drugs were...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21444201/amazon-removes-drugs-peptides-doping-listings
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