The agency sent warning letters to more than 50 compounding pharmacies and manufacturers, citing violations ranging from sterility failures to subpotent products to outright insanitary conditions
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Haddad F, Zaldivar F, Cooper DM, Adams GR
This matters more in older adults, in anyone whose function depends on strength, and in anyone with low muscle reserve to start with