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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 1014883" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>Agreed. I think I've heard that defence from players within the community game, I don't ever recall it from a professional. Given that they'll have been specifically told not to swig magic potions from randoms at the gym, I'm pretty sure that the authorities consider this close to no defence at all.</p><p></p><p>I was assuming that if this is the line he's going down, he would be intending to claim that a legit supplement that he had taken was contaminated. To be best of my knowledge, the burden of proof lies with him to prove that this was the case, hence my comment about keeping duplicates of batches of supplements. It's going to be tough to argue that significant enough quantities of three different PEDs were present in the factory that produced the supplement for him to test positive for them. The only time I recall this defence being used successfully was in the late 90s when a Maximuscle supplement caused a spate of positive tests. I recall a Blackheath second row attempting this defence back in 2014. He had no way of proving his claim and received a two year ban, which would have been pretty standard for a community game player at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 1014883, member: 58362"] Agreed. I think I've heard that defence from players within the community game, I don't ever recall it from a professional. Given that they'll have been specifically told not to swig magic potions from randoms at the gym, I'm pretty sure that the authorities consider this close to no defence at all. I was assuming that if this is the line he's going down, he would be intending to claim that a legit supplement that he had taken was contaminated. To be best of my knowledge, the burden of proof lies with him to prove that this was the case, hence my comment about keeping duplicates of batches of supplements. It's going to be tough to argue that significant enough quantities of three different PEDs were present in the factory that produced the supplement for him to test positive for them. The only time I recall this defence being used successfully was in the late 90s when a Maximuscle supplement caused a spate of positive tests. I recall a Blackheath second row attempting this defence back in 2014. He had no way of proving his claim and received a two year ban, which would have been pretty standard for a community game player at the time. [/QUOTE]
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