Doping expert's scrutiny warning

Essendon call in AFL and ASADA to investigate the club's training regime and suppliments given to players.

Victory University Institute of Sport's Simon Outram chats to Fox Sports News about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in light of the Essendon stimulant scandal.

Essendon bosses Ian Robson, David Evans and James Hird fronted the media yesterday. Picture: Scott Chris Source: Herald Sun

THE great unknown of what is actually in supplements is the biggest danger to professional athletes.

A leading anti-doping expert has warned that because supplements aren't produced in a controlled environment, like medication, there are risks involved.

"The main problem is that because it's not controlled like the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) controls medications, you don't know 100 per cent what is in them," former World Anti-Doping Agency director Nicki Vance said.

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"If you look at the WADA website and ASADA (Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority) website, all the anti-doping organisations will have a blanket statement that you use supplements at your own risk.

"That's the general rule of thumb from all anti-doping organisations."

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Vance said some major sports, including cycling teams, worked closely with organisations - including leading university laboratories - to prepare appropriate supplements.

"That way they know they have got nothing banned in them," she said.

"You look at what happened with the BALCO stuff in the US, where in Salt Lake City there were a lot of drug manufacturers there making supplements.

"They might make one batch of supplements which are perfectly all right but they don't have to be so controlled so the next batch happens to be done after a batch of anabolic steroids (has just been produced) for example."

Vance said it was debatable how useful supplements would be for AFL footballers.

Bombers players make their way off the MCG in 2012. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun

"You talk to one nutritionist and they might say it is a very expensive urine," she said. "If you don't need something generally it is just a waste product and will go straight through.

"But you will find others who will say if you are working at a very hard level, like in Aussie rules, they may have an iron deficiency so there might be some very legitimate use of medication done in the appropriate way."

ASADA CEO Aurora Andruska spoke with the Essendon Football Club yesterday and immediately appealed for people involved to come forward.

"Every bit of information, no matter how little, could be a piece of a puzzle that uncovers doping in sport," an ASADA spokesman said.

"It would be premature to speculate about what action will be taken before the investigation is concluded."

The standard ban, according to the WADA code for using performance-enhancing drugs, is two years, though that can vary.

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