Regulatory record

Regulatory recordSupporting passage inspected

FDA states that SARMs are not FDA approved. Its class warning describes reports of serious adverse effects associated with marketed SARM products, including liver injury. This does not establish the frequency or cause of an event for each individual compound.[1]

Jurisdiction
United States
Product
Products marketed as selective androgen receptor modulators
Indication
No FDA-approved SARM therapeutic indication in the cited agency communication
Record date
2026-09-08
  • Class-level regulatory advice must not be mistaken for a study of every individual SARM or combination.
Inspection history

Clinical review: not reviewed by a qualified clinician.

· Independently inspected the listed passages; replaced or qualified inherited assertions. No qualified clinical review has occurred.

· Independently reopened the FDA page directly; the live URL returned an automated bot-detection response on this attempt, so the Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot dated 2026-05-18 was read as a lawful alternative. Confirmed the full page text verbatim, that it names no individual SARM, and its footer statement Content current as of 04/26/2023. This claim's own regulatory.asOf field still carried the evidence-cutoff placeholder (2026-09-08) rather than the source's actual date even though the source record itself was already corrected to 2023-04-26 by an earlier batch; corrected regulatory.asOf to 2023-04-26 here. The claim text required no change. Independent editorial review pending.

· Independent editorial review: the 2026-09-09 change of regulatory.asOf from 2026-09-08 to 2023-04-26 is rejected and reverted. Every other regulatory claim in the published model (17 of 18, by direct count) and two prior coordinator corrections in this same pass (aas-coordinator-edits.json, ancillary-coordinator-edits.json) establish that regulatory.asOf records the date through which this pass confirms the described status is still current, capped at the evidence cutoff -- not the cited document's own date, which is already fully recorded on the source record's own publicationDate and availableBy fields. regulatory.asOf is restored to 2026-09-08. No other change to this claim's text, sources or limitations was required; independently reconfirmed the FDA page's class-only, no-molecule-named framing, its exact adverse-event list including liver injury and acute liver failure, and its footer date. No qualified clinical review has occurred.

Clinical & experimental findings

Animal / laboratoryAbstract inspected

AC-262536 was identified as a partial androgen-receptor agonist in a cell-based functional assay and, in a 2-week study in castrated male rats, significantly improved anabolic parameters including levator ani muscle growth and suppression of elevated LH, with weak effects on prostate and seminal vesicle weight compared with testosterone. These preclinical findings do not establish human muscle gain, safety or endocrine recovery.[2]

  • The inspected primary study is preclinical; no human half-life is inferred from it.
  • The study duration was 2 weeks; longer preclinical exposure and any human data are not reported here.
Inspection history

Clinical review: not reviewed by a qualified clinician.

· Independently inspected the listed passages; replaced or qualified inherited assertions. No qualified clinical review has occurred.

· Reopened the abstract and added the exact study duration (2 weeks), the assay type (cell-based functional assay) and the specific anabolic/androgenic endpoints reported.

What remains unresolved

Editorial assessment

These notes describe the scope of this review. Linked PMIDs are audit identifiers; an identifier alone does not verify a claim.

Retained compound-specific rat androgen-receptor findings and a separate FDA class approval statement.

  • Human clinical efficacy, half-life, suppression severity and recovery are not established by the inspected source.
  • Other inherited assertions not supported by the published claim set remain unverified; no qualified clinician review has occurred.

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References

  1. FDA warns of selective androgen receptor modulators marketed to teens and young adults

    FDA web page. The footer states "Content current as of: 04/26/2023" (26 April 2023); confirmed unchanged against a Wayback Machine snapshot dated 2026-05-18, inspected 2026-09-09. 2023-04-26. Regulatory document.

    Inspected location: Full consumer-update text: SARM approval status, listed adverse-event categories (including liver injury and acute liver failure), dietary-supplement/drug status and MedWatch reporting guidance

    Study context and inspection record
  2. Pharmacological characterization of AC-262536, a novel selective androgen receptor modulator.

    2007-11-22. PMID:18164613 · DOI:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2007.11.001 Abstract only.

    Inspected location: Abstract: methods and results

    Study context and inspection record

Source inspection and clinical review are separate. An abstract check is not a full-text review. The records above identify what was actually inspected and do not certify the complete literature.

Recorded verification attempts
  • peptide-fda-sarms: Sections explaining lack of FDA approval and reported adverse effects
  • peptide-pmid-18164613: Abstract: methods and results

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