CV-PP-11 · standards
Found on 17 of the 1,524 best-selling listings we have ruled, 21 times in total. That is 17 live product pages carrying this wording today.
Amazon Seller Central, Dietary Supplements policy
“prohibited claims in listing content including title, bullets, description and search terms”
Source checked 2026-08-18.
FDCA s.201(g)(1)(B), 21 U.S.C. 321(g)(1)(B)
“definition of 'drug': articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease”
Source checked 2026-08-18.
FTC Act s.5(a), 15 U.S.C. 45(a)
“unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce”
Source checked 2026-08-18.
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, Prohibited Activities
“transactions involving steroids and products that present a risk to consumer safety”
Source checked 2026-09-13.
An interpretation. We applied a published legal test to the published copy and reached a conclusion. Reasonable reviewers applying the same test can disagree at the margin; this is our reviewer's professional opinion, and the test is cited so you can check the reasoning.
Claims Verified, standard CV-PP-11 "Legal steroids / anabolic effect", standards v1.3.1, retrieved 16 September 2026, https://claimsverified.org/standards/CV-PP-11/
Or put it in your own policy
Marketing copy must not use "Legal steroids / anabolic effect" or equivalent wording. See Claims Verified standard CV-PP-11 (standards v1.3.1): https://claimsverified.org/standards/CV-PP-11/
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