WADA: "We can't test for Human Growth Hormone."
November 16th 2007 13:46
WADA Director General David Howman has admitted that abuse of Human Growth Hormone in sport is out of control.
“Not only is (HGH) used probably with total impunity, it's probably being used in conjunction with other bad substances.”
He also admitted that the current testing procedure for HGH is all but useless.
When quizzed by BBC journalists at the anti-doping summit in Madrid Howman said,
“At the moment, there's a time span during which you can be detected if you've taken it. Outside that time zone, it's undetectable.”
That time zone is just twenty-four hours.