This week, members of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) leadership team were in Montego Bay, Jamaica for the 25th General Assembly of the Americas Sports Council (CADE) to meet with stakeholders ...

Athletes may have illnesses or conditions that require them to take medications. If the medication an athlete is required to take to treat an illness or condition happens to fall under the Prohibited ...

The WADA Taskforce on Unintentional Doping is a specific Working Group created by the WADA Education Department at the request of the WADA Social Science Research Expert Advisory Group (SSREAG). It is ...

Unintentional doping occurs when an athlete unknowingly violates an anti-doping rule, often as a result of using contaminated supplements, food, or medication, or due to a lack of awareness about anti ...

The WADA Working Group on Contaminations (WGC) has been created by WADA Management at the request of the WADA Executive Committee (ExCo). The creation of the WGC follows a recommendation from the ...

Unfortunately, the mass difference between rEPO and uEPO/bEPO is not large enough to result in a clear separation on SAR- and SDS-PAGE. Instead, a “mixed” band containing both compounds is frequently ...

GC-C-IRMS is used to confirm the exogenous origin of endogenous anabolic steroids. Samples are analyzed with a fast initial testing procedure to isolate suspicious samples and, afterwards, the ...

Chapter S2 of WADA’s Prohibited List 2023 (“Peptide hormones, growth factors, related substances, and mimetics”) lists Erythropoietin Receptor Agonists (ERAs) and Transforming growth factor beta ...