Sentences with phrase «ban on all substances»

Not exact matches

Only a crazy person takes banned substances before a competition, before the Olympics,» Svishchev said on Sunday night when the news first broke.

His claim about a clean comeback «is a direct attack on the credibility of the USADA [U.S. Anti-Doping Agency] report, which maintains that blood samples from those years indeed suggest he continued to use banned substances,» note Red and O'Keeffe at the Daily News.

Testosterone, I also learned, is on the list of banned substances for professional athletes.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a list of toxic chemicals that will be the first reviewed under a recently enacted law that gives regulators increased authority to ban substances shown to endanger human health.

Growing concern about trans fat in foods has several legislatures and foodservice operators taking swift action to ban the substance, but consumers still are not making dining choices based on the potentially harmful fat.While consumers say that...

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the Australian energy drink industry, has today issued a clarification on the use of the term «energy drink» in light of the recent coverage of an AFL footballer facing possible bans after consuming a drink that contained a banned substance.

It is understood by The Mirror and other sources that Sakho was taking a fat burning product which contained something on WADA's banned substance list.

The suit also pointed out that after Singh's caddie, Tony Shepherd, suggested he try the deer extract «to address knee and back problems,» the golfer ensured himself that the product was legal by comparing its ingredients to those on the tour's banned - substance list.

But on Friday her tumultuous Olympiad — in which she has been divorced, given birth to a son, been implicated, though not charged, in the ongoing BALCO steroid case (she has denied using banned substances), and, this year, fallen from dominance deep into mediocrity — came to a crashing end.

On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, the website Halestorm Sports reported that Morales had tested positive for a banned substance.

He did get to keep his gold medal, however, because cannabis was not on the IOC's list of banned substances.

WADA's position appears to be that since there is an apparent intention of using this substance to improve performances and that there has been an abrupt increase in suspicious usage, they've decided to put it on the banned list proactively.

The ban came on the chemical substances phthalates, which are used to soften such items as baby rattles and teething toys.

«Baroness Smith of Basildon to move that this House regrets that Her Majesty's Government's plans for the introduction of the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 2014 do not include provisions for a 12 - month review of the impact of the reclassification of khat in view of the highly unusual community focus of its use, for putting a detailed policing strategy in place before a ban takes effect, or for a health strategy to prevent a transfer of addiction to other substances; and do not commit the Department for International Development to do more work with the government of Kenya to alleviate the effect of the reclassification on the Kenyan economy.»

And there are fears that the ban on the drug will drive people towards more addictive substances.

It actually supports a blanket ban on new psychoactive substances.

«It's the worst censorship of research in the history of humanity,» Nutt says of Home Office restrictions on studies of banned substances.

Further evidence from Ireland, where a similar ban on all psychoactive substances exist, shows that prosecutions are highly difficult.

Several of them, such as a ban on salvia divinorum and tighter restrictions on the sale of vaporized alcohol, dealt with substance abuse.

Cuomo is adding 36 chemical compositions to New York's list of controlled substances, including substances like K2, which is already listed on a federal schedule of controlled substances and banned in some counties.

An expanded ban on synthetic marijuana substances is being added to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 168 billion spending plan, his office on Wednesday announced.

One can not argue for the «War on Drugs» without saying ALL potentially harmful substances should be banned.

This is our story on the decision by Lambeth council to ban substances with a capacity to stimulate or depress the central nervous system - which is almost everything.

The regulation is not aiming for a blanket ban on legal highs, but for an effective, trans - continent system for preventing dangerous new substances reaching potential consumers.

Sharapova, the world's highest - paid female athlete and a five - times Grand Slam champion, stunned the sporting world in March when she announced that she had tested positive for meldonium, a substance she had been taking since 2006 but one that was added to the banned list on January 1 this year.

The government's new blanket ban on the supply of psychoactive substances, continued to cause controversy this week.

New counterfeit versions of fentanyl — which can be snorted, injected or swallowed in pill form — don't show up on the list of banned substances in the U.S.

According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.

Appiah Stadium was arrested on Tuesday by the Ashanti Regional Police to substantiate allegations that President Nana Akufo - Addo smokes «wee», which is a banned substance in the country.

It takes years to get on the federal Drug Enforcement Agency's Schedule A list of banned substances, and by then, dealers have tweaked the chemical compound enough to avoid arrest and prosecution.

Efforts to ban the sale of vaporisers and e-cigarettes to teens on the grounds that these devices always intrinsically deliver harmful substances may not be backed up by the evidence, they caution, suggesting that other approaches may be more effective.

Used mostly to insulate large electrical capacitors and transformers, PCBs were one of the most widely used industrial substances on Earth until they were banned in the United States, and most other developed countries, in the late 1970s.

The agency has ordered testing on just 200 compounds and restricted or banned only five since it gained the authority to regulate new chemicals in 1976 under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Prescription anti-asthma medications can help, although the International Olympic Committee requires athletes to prove they have asthma orexercise - induced asthma in order to qualify for a «therapeutic use exemption» on the regularly banned substances.

HCFCs are themselves replacements for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone - destroying chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Although the European Union's (E.U.) Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) went into effect in 2006 — effectively banning new electronics (pdf) that contain certain levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and other toxic chemicals — lead has been difficult to phase out due its versatility.

It should begin by reforming and strengthening the Toxic Substances Control Act to require reviews of chemicals for safety, force manufacturers to provide adequate health data on any chemical under review, and empower agencies to restrict or ban the use of chemicals with clear evidence of harm.

The fears about drug waste having a direct effect on the environment and suggested legislation «presupposes there is a problem,» and the cost of removing substances or banning them may be «just plain impractical,» he said at the meeting.

The category also includes lower - grade stimulants such as ephedrine and even caffeine, which was on the banned substances list until 2003.

«Some of us on the ACMD think that this is a very attractive long - term approach to the problem that we ban one substance and another one will crop up the following week,» said Iversen.

Those worried this could put Happy Water in contravention of the UK's blanket ban on mind - altering substances will be pleased to know that «one neuroscience lab tested this, and unsurprisingly found no significant effect on brain neurons ``.

The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (or MARPOL) calls for signatory nations to enforce bans on dumping oil and noxious liquids into the ocean from ships, but the disposal of hazardous substances, sewage, and plastics remains optional.

It's not on any list of banned substances on any international sports organizations.

The «Anabolic Steroid Control Act» then included prohormones too on their list of banned substances in the majority of sports associations, which resulted in them being removed from the market.

Not only is Total Strength + Performance certified to contain no banned substances by one of the top testing facilities in the world (BSCG), clinical trials on active NCAA powerlifting competitors indicated no negative results for athletes, including those subjected to testosterone profiling.

Per usual, a great deal of critics have essentially predetermined that Eastwood's politics are more important to harp on than the political substance of his movie, to the point that a few truly moronic writers have labeled it as an argument for the travel ban.

Despite the ban on striking, which is similar to what Chicago faced during the first four years of corporate «school reform» (1995 - 1999, when Vallas was CEO of Chicago), union members across Philadelphia are talking about the need for a strike, according to Substance sources.

• McSweeney's clever piece on Banned Performance Enhancing Substances in Literary Competitions had us laughing'til our sides hurt.

HCFCs are themselves replacements for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone - destroying chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The Montreal Protocol promised a worldwide phased ban on ozone - depleting substances and a transition to more environmentally sustainable alternatives.