Many specialists are sure that a person can test positive for Clenbuterol due to contaminated meat

Alberto Contador, a Spanish professional cyclist, who won the 2010 Tour de France tested positive for Clenbuterol. Amounts of this substance in his body were too small. They were 40 times less than its minimum standard of the detection capacity. But the WADA is completely intolerable when it comes to this medication. Any amount of this drug detected in an athlete’s body leads to ban.
Alberto Contador claims that the positive for Clenbuterol is caused by meat contaminated with this substance. A lot of experts are inclined to believe him, since the quantity uncovered in his urine are too small. Neveretheless, Alberto Contadorreceived a ban.
The anti-doping expert of Contador’s defense team Douwe de Boer announces that he becomes disappointed in the WADA’s decision day by day. This specialist mentions that he seems as if the WADA were happy to ban innocent athletes but not to detect cheaters.
The expert Zhao Jian of China’s Anti-Doping Agency notices that an individual may test positive from contaminated meat. It is not just anyone’s opinion. This statement is scientifically proven. Detlef Thieme of the Institute of Doping Analysis and Sports Biochemistry in German supports this statement too. He claims that nobody can doubt about it.
Wilhelm Schaenzer of the Laboratoty for Doping Analysis at the German Sports University in Cologne says that it is an evident problem that they do not have capacity to investigate and define doping clearly.
According to anti-doping studies led in Cologne, it is easier to detect Clenbuterol from contaminated meat than from intentional use of this product for performance-enhancing effects.
China’s National Anti-Doping Laboratory reports that experiments led by them have displayed that consumption of pork meat containing Clenbuterol may cause positives for this substance.
In spite of these affirmations, there are skeptic persons who assure that the cyclist Alberto contador has administrated performance-enhancing drugs.
Skeptic attitude to the cyclist Alberto Contador can be explained by the condition that usage of EPO, anabolic steroids, HGH and other medicines that have performance-enhancing effects is widespread in cycling. The former cyclists Floyd Landis and Bernhard Kohl that have been caught by the WADA assure that all cyclists use performance-enhancing drugs. The chemist Patrick Arnold has the same opinion.