The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2012 Prohibited List

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2012 Prohibited List, which will come into effect on 1 January 2012.

 

The Prohibited List is the international standard that outlines the substances and methods that are prohibited in sport.

 

I encourage you and your relevant staff members to familiarise yourself with the new Prohibited List and to ensure your athletes and support personnel are ready for the change on 1 January 2012.

 

For your convenience the full List, a summary of all modifications and details of their monitoring program are available on the WADA website.

 

The major change to the 2012 List which will affect Australian athletes and support personnel is to inhaled formoterol.

 

In its announcement of the 2012 List WADA advised that, “The List prohibits the administration of all beta-2 agonists except salbutamol (maximum 1600 micrograms over 24 hours), salmeterol when taken by inhalation, and now formoterol (maximum 36 micrograms taken over 24 hours).”

 

WADA also has a monitoring program that focuses on substances which are not on the Prohibited List, but which it wishes to monitor in order to detect patterns of misuse in sport. WADA has confirmed that in 2012 it will be monitoring the effects nicotine can have on performance when taken in oral tobacco products such as snus. WADA stressed that it was not the Agency’s intention to target smokers.

 

A communications kit is available from the ASADA website, which we encourage your organisation to use in passing on this important information to your state affiliates, athletes, team managers, medical officials and other support persons. If your sport has an anti-doping contact officer this link will also be sent to them today.

 

In addition, information is also being made available for athletes and support personnel directly through the ASADA websiteand our Twitter,Facebookand YouTubepages.

 

Our education and information resources will be updated by 1 January 2012 to ensure they reflect the new List, and athletes can re-check the status of their medications at any time by referring to our online tool, Check Your Substances on the ASADA website. The Check Your Substances tool will be updated to reflect the 2012 changes on 23 December 2011.

 

If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Yours sincerely

Aurora Andruska

 

Aurora Andruska PSM

Chief Executive Officer

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

 

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