Widespread Plasticizer Clouds Doping Tests of Cyclists
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
In the race to catch drug cheats, sports officials are turning to more sophisticated tests. Since cheaters are rarely caught red-handed, scientists devised a plan to catch them with the packaging inside their bodies. But a plasticizer is so ubiquitous in people that it has clouded the results of these blood doping tests in the world of professional cycling. [More]