Informed Sport: What the Certification Means If You Compete

Informed Sport is a certification programme that tests supplements, batch by batch, for substances banned in sport. It is run by LGC’s laboratories alongside UK Anti-Doping, and it is the standard athletes and professional teams use to decide what they take. Sports ProResolve carries it.

If you compete at a professional level, you know the margin between winning and missing out is measured in details. You manage your training load, your periodisation, your rest, your nutrition. Choosing a supplement should not be the weak link in all that work.

Sports ProResolve is formulated with Lipinova^® SPM, an ingredient that supplies the mediators involved in the natural resolution of inflammation after exertion. But “natural” does not mean “unchecked”. Precisely because you compete in an environment where any undeclared trace can cost you a ban, we have put the product through the most demanding standard in sports nutrition: Informed Sport certification.

Natural does not mean risk-free

A product being naturally derived does not exempt it from risk. In fact, many cases of inadvertent doping in sport do not come from synthetic ingredients but from cross-contamination during manufacturing: traces of banned substances that end up in a product without the brand knowing, often because it is made in facilities that also handle other compounds.

The scale of the problem is documented. An international study analysed 634 supplements bought across thirteen countries and found undeclared doping substances in around 15% of them (Geyer et al., 2004). Later reviews put contamination rates between 12% and 58% depending on the product type (Martínez-Sanz et al., 2017).

And the responsibility sits with you. Under the anti-doping rules every athlete competes by, a positive test is the athlete’s responsibility regardless of whether the substance came from a contaminated supplement they had no way of knowing about. That is why we were not willing to settle for a formula that is clean on paper: we wanted every batch leaving the factory verified independently before it reaches you.

What Informed Sport certification is

Informed Sport is an international certification and testing programme for sports supplements, developed in partnership with UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and run by LGC’s laboratories, which have more than two decades of experience in anti-doping analysis. It is the reference standard for professional athletes, elite teams and anti-doping bodies worldwide.

What it means that Sports ProResolve carries the mark

In practice, four things:

• Every batch is tested individually against a panel of more than 250 substances banned in sport, rather than the general formula being checked once a year.
• Testing is carried out by an accredited external laboratory under ISO 17025. It is not an internal self-assessment.
• Certification does not stop at approval. Informed Sport carries out periodic blind testing on product already on the market, to make sure nothing changes over time.
• You can check it yourself. Every tub of Sports ProResolve carries a batch number you can look up in the public Informed Sport database to confirm that specific unit has been tested and cleared.

That last point is the one worth using. Anyone can print a logo on a label. A batch number that appears in an independent database is a different matter, and it takes ten seconds to check.

Why we do it this way

We could simply say Sports ProResolve is a natural product and leave it there. But for a professional athlete, “natural” is not guarantee enough when your career is on the line. That is why we have taken the product a step beyond the industry norm: we do not just formulate with your recovery in mind, we verify batch by batch that what you take is consistent with what is on the label.

Train without limits. Recover without doubt. With Sports ProResolve, every batch meets the same standard you hold yourself to.

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