Since 1999 several groups have analyzed nutritional supplements with mass spectrometric
methods (GC/MS, LC/MS/MS) for contaminations and adulterations with doping substances …

Androgens are potent drugs requiring prescription for valid medical indications but are
misused for invalid, unproven, or off-label reasons as well as being abused without …

According to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List, anabolic agents consist
of exogenous anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), endogenous AAS and other anabolic …

Today, routine doping controls largely rely on testing whole blood, serum, and urine
samples. These matrices allow comprehensively covering inorganic as well as low and high …

The fight against doping in sports commenced as a result of the death of a Danish cyclist
during the Rome Olympic Games in 1960. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) …

Technical innovations continuously offer new options for research and routine applications
in various arenas of analytical chemistry. In combination with a concomitantly increasing …

Increasing the blood's capacity for oxygen transport by erythropoiesis‐stimulating agents
(ESAs) constitutes a prohibited procedure of performance enhancement according to the …

So far, in sports drug testing compounds of different classes are processed and measured
using different screening procedures. The constantly increasing number of samples in …

Anabolic‐androgenic steroids (AAS) represent one of the most frequently detected classes
of prohibited substances in doping controls. Due to their long‐lasting beneficial effects on …

The list of prohibited substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) classifies the
administration of several steroids in sports as doping. Their analysis is generally performed …