Athlete will be sanctioned for eating pork – pork that has been contaminated with clenbuterol???
Do you know that the Tianjin judo team has their own pig farm near the training campus to ensure that pork eaten by athletes is free from clenbuterol? That maybe an extreme measure to avoid inadvertent doping through food contamination. Anyhow, athletes are advised to be extremely careful on your choice of food.
All athletes included in the HKADC testing pools are advised to approach HKADC to update any changes to your contact information such as phone number, mailing address and email address. Having your updated contacts allows us to precisely disseminate important reminders and anti-doping information to you.
Following a significant number of positive cases for methylhexaneamine recently reported at different parts of the world and at major games including the XIX Commonwealth Games and the Guangzhou Asian Games, HKADC would like to issue this warning to alert athletes on the potential risk of inadvertent doping for using products containing methylhexaneamine.
With the increasing number of doping cases being discovered, the Hong Kong Anti-Doping Committee (HKADC) would like to remind members of the sport community that anti-doping rules violation is not limited to the use of prohibited substances by athletes. Moreover, individuals may also violate the laws of Hong Kong through importing, selling and possession of some of these substances.
Federation Internationale de Gymastique (FIG) has recently issued a severe warning to a previously retired Romanian gymnast Marian Dragulescu for failing to comply with the whereabouts requirements governing retired athletes prior to returning to competition. FIG has warned further that the athlete will be subject to suspension for subsequent offence.
Three substances have been newly classified as anabolic steroids and the selling of supplements containing these substances is considered as a crime in the States. In 2008, 58 supplements containing the three steroids have been identified and they can be easily purchased in the market.
Bodybuilding.com, an online forum and store for bodybuilders, has recently recalled 65 dietary supplements that have been identified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States as steroids-containing products. FDA has urged people who have any of the Recalled Products in their possession to stop using them immediately and contact their physician if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking them.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United Sates have recently issued warnings of the presence of hidden steroids in certain brands of supplements by American Cellular Laboratories including "TREN-Xtreme," "MASS Xtreme," "ESTRO Xtreme," "AH-89-Xtreme," "HMG Xtreme," "MMA-3 Xtreme," "VNS-9 Xtreme," and "TT-40-Xtreme."
