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]

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