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SOME FACTS:
SUPPLEMENTS ARE A RISK TO SPORT
Jeff Benz,
Arbitrator Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
2014 Tackling Doping in Sport Conference
WADA STRICT LIABILITY
The principle of strict liability is applied in
situations where urine/blood samples collected
from an athlete have produced adverse
analytical results.
Contaminated Products
In cases where the Athlete or other Person can
establish No Significant Fault or Negligence and
that the detected Prohibited Substance came
from a Contaminated Product, then the period of
Ineligibility shall be, at a minimum, a reprimand
and no period of Ineligibility, and at a maximum,
two years Ineligibility, depending on the Athlete’s
or other Person’s degree of Fault (10.5.1.2.)
THE SPORTING LANDSCAPE
Anabolic steroid
Methylhexanamine
THE SPORTING LANDSCAPE
• There is a problem!
• Sources of contamination
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
- raw materials
• Wide-reaching consequences
CONTAMINATION RESEARCH
Chance of contamination:
2013 EUROPEAN
PRODUCT SURVEY
Raw materials
• Contamination at source?
• Imported raw materials – levels of QA?
• Botanical products – natural steroids,
stimulants?
Manufacturing Process
• Cleaning processes and cross
contamination
• Detection levels
• Machine history
2010-2011 MANUFACTURING SITE
RESEARCH
1 European, 1 US manufacturing
site:
Swabs taken from key areas: goods
in/storage, manufacturing lines,
packing/storage
None of the sites handled banned
substances at the time of the visit
2010-2011 LGC REVIEW OF
MANUFACTURING SITES
European site:
• 41 swabs
• 20 showed evidence for contamination (49%)
• Testosterone, DHEA, ephedrine/
pseudoephedrine, methylhexanamine
American site:
• 20 swabs
• 17 showed evidence for contamination (85%!)
• DHEA, androstenediol, androstenedione,
methamphetamine
WHAT ARE LEVELS OF
‘CONTAMINANT’?
Some sports and sports clubs insist that only batches used by elite
athletes must be tested – what about the general consumer, especially
teenage consumer?
• LGC has tested for approx. 300 customers in the last year
Post Registration:
• Test samples from EVERY batch of product, PRIOR to
release for sale
• Secure storage of each batch tested
• “Blind” product testing – 4 x year (tailing off to 1 per year)
• Notify over 200 sports bodies, sports dieticians and
nutritionists to alert them to new products in the
programme
• Includes governing bodies for football, tennis, athletics,
golf rugby, cricket, etc.
INFORMED-SPORT WEBSITE
INFORMED-SPORT WEBSITE
UK Anti-Doping – Supplements Policy
WADA list is open ended – cannot test for ‘every’ banned substance –
and designed for testing urine and blood, not supplements samples
Athletes at all levels use sports supplements but they need to be aware
of the risk of inadvertent doping
Science
for a safer world