Anti-Doping Policy Change is a Win for UFC Nutritional Partner Thorne

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By Patrick Auger
Nov 27, 2019

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After conducting a review of the promotion’s policy, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and United States Anti-Doping Agency have decided to make some changes.

On Nov. 25, the world’s largest MMA organization announced it was making formal adjustments to its anti-doping policy through a press release on the company’s website. Changes in the program include a prohibited list of substances with specific threshold levels, which will determine whether or not an athlete receives a provisional suspension should they test positive for one of the listed items. The overhaul comes after several recent cases of UFC fighters being flagged for tainted supplements, including an issue that almost had Nate Diaz removed from UFC 244.

“Putting forth a fair anti-doping program with due process protection is integral to having a strong and comprehensive program,” said UFC Senior Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitzky in the release, “A combination of the pervasiveness of low-level contaminants in our environment and the increased levels of testing sensitivity of anti-doping laboratories has created an explicit need for decision concentration levels to ensure that the program is penalizing intentional cheaters and not those athletes who have been faithfully adhering to the anti-doping policy.”

An additional change in the policy is the introduction of certified supplements. The UFC has directed fighters under contract with the organization to only use supplements that have been certified through one of the following agencies:

- NSF Certified For Sport
- Kolner Liste (Cologne List)
- Informed Sport Trusted by Sport
- HASTA (Human and Supplement Testing Australia)
- BSCG (Banned Substance Control Group)

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If an athlete uses supplements that have gone through one of these accredited entities, they will not be sanctioned under the UFC anti-doping policy if they pop positive for one of the aforementioned substances, absent other evidence of doping. This essentially gives a fighter blanket immunity from any sanctions that may arise from contaminated supplements so long as they use certain products.

this makes zero sense to me, its just an excuse to have ufc fighters use and therefore endorse ufc shill products.

any fighter using this shit might still be using other stuff anyway, and test positive for illegal traces from that, and of course they may also just have messed up their cycle and show traces that way. but because they use the ufc own brand products they get off scot free

you could easily say "aw its a pity i dont have any of that UFC creatine left to prove thats where the horse steroids came from, but that pack ran out and i threw the container away"

this just seems like such transparent bullshit to me

 

[Azure]

This is just a way to protect fighters when they pop.