One of USADA’s most difficult jobs while running the UFC’s anti-doping program has been separating truth from fiction in supplement contamination cases. Since the program’s inception in 2015, several athletes accused of anti-doping violations have claimed they unknowingly took products that contained banned performance-enhancers. It’s been USADA’s job to determine whether they’re being honest, and if so, how much they’re at fault. But when it comes to the category of banned PEDs known as selective androgen receptor modulators, or SARMs, the agency aims to avoid that question altogether by pushing lawmakers to ban them. “We think we have a great solution to ensuring SARMs are no longer available on the market and as supplements, and that would shut off contamination issues – or that’s our hope,” USADA CEO Travis Tygart recently told MMAjunkie. SARMs are currently classified as “other anabolic agents” because they mimic the benefits of anabolic steroids.
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USADA explains efforts to ‘shut off’ supplement contamination cases, go after SARMs – MMA Junkie