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Baroness Bull (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 June 2026

Debate

Social Media: Substances Unfit for Human Consumption

Contribution

My Lords, is the problem here not often one of classification? Selective androgen receptor modulators, or SARMs, which are so often the basis of the physique-enhancing supplements to which the Question refers, are classified as novel foods by the FSA. This means that while they are not approved for human use and cannot be marketed as dietary or medical supplements, they can be sold online as research-use only chemicals, which is how people get around the social media loophole. Should the Government not be moving to reclassify them and close the legal loophole which allows them to be sold online?

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