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adverts that they are building to BS5750 quality standards, says an industry chief.
At least "two or three" manufacturers falsely claim to hold BS5750 certification, says Geoff Bailey, chairman of the quality code committee of the SMMT and VBRA, "Such claims are difficult to prove or disprove, and, while such advertising can be brought to the attention of the appropriate authorities, any action against offenders will take time," says Bailey, who runs Waterlooville, Hants-based bodybuilder Wadham Stringer.
Bailey says that members of the SMMT and VBRA who have earned BS5750 and meet the associations' own bodybuilding quality code are angered by rivals gaining an unfair advantage without having devoted resources to winning the standard.
The British Standards Institution, one of the bodies which awards BS5750, has also said it is worried about companies
making misleading claims (Bodybuilder, June). So far 19 companies have won SMMT/VBRA quality recognition and another 30 are working towards it.
Bailey says it was launched in 1987 "because the bodybuilding industry had a patchy record on quality and it was felt that standards needed to be set".