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A North Carolina man who owns a sport supplement company was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to selling unapproved steroid-like drugs, according to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Brian Michael Parks, 47, the owner of MedFit Sarmacuticals Inc., admitted in a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia that he and his company had unlawfully distributed drugs that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from Jun. 2017 to Sept. 2019, according to a DOJ statement.
Park and his company had unlawfully distributed and advertised certain drugs such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs), Ostarine (MK-2866), Ligandrol (LGD-4033) and Testolone (RAD-140). The FDA has not approved these drugs as sport or dietary supplements.
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