Identification of the consequences of the proliferation of counterfeit sports supplements market

BMC Res Notes. 2025 Dec 18. doi: 10.1186/s13104-025-07619-z. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Masoud Mohamadi Askarabadi¹, Bahram Yousefi², Zohreh Hasani¹, Rastegar Hoseini³, Saeed Kazemi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
² Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. byousefy@razi.ac.ir.
³ Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
⁴ Iranian Sports Medicine Federation, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 41413596
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-025-07619-z

No abstract available

Keywords: Anti-doping; Consumer safety; Counterfeit supplements; Criminology; Grounded theory; Iran; Public health; Sports nutrition.