BSCG Newsletter – February 2022
Feb 07, 2022
Banned Substances Control Group
Greetings to all of our valued clients and colleagues around the world. BSCG is excited about the start of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games and we hope you are too. Two Olympics in one year,last year during these stressful COVID times. The founders of BSCG have had the amazing opportunity to attend 26 Olympic Games in total and we consider ourselves part of the extended Olympic Family. Don H. Catlin, M.D. our Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer was one of the longest tenured members of the IOC Medical
Commission serving for more than 20 years and attending 14 Olympic Games, 11 of those with Oliver Catlin, BSCG President, by his side. Ryan Connolly, our Co-Founder and Counsel, was instrumental in establishing and fulfilling the testing contract for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Games setting up a temporary lab and martialing a team of staff alongside Dr. Catlin. Together we were proud to create BSCG in 2004.
As the XXIV Olympic Winter Games open in Beijing we thought it would be a good time to share more of the origin story of BSCG.
The Start of Anti-Doping in the United States
The UCLA Analytical Laboratory he built performed drug testing for three Olympic Games (1984 Los Angeles, 1996 Atlanta, 2002 Salt Lake), the 1994 World Cup, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the U.S. Military, Major League Baseball's minor leagues, and more. At the time of Dr. Catlin’s retirement in 2007 the lab had grown to become the world's largest testing facility of performance-enhancing drugs, processing more than 50,000 samples per year.
A True Innovator
Dr. Catlin was an intellectual Olympian who took up the global battle against performance enhancing drugs in sports. He changed the world by creating new testing techniques and in the process authored more than 100 articles in scientific publications. His incredible thirst for innovation saw him create a testing methodology that differentiates natural from artificial testosterone known as the Carbon Isotope Ratio (CIR) method. The test remains the gold standard today and has been expanded to cover other endogenous steroids.
He also martialed the unveiling of the test to detect the blood booster medicine, darbepoietin in Salt Lake, busting two medalists in the process, and put the world on notice about designer steroids by cracking the code for THG, the steroid at the heart of the BALCO doping scandal that was fueling Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and others. Dr. Catlin’s contributions to the world of sport have been so great that the Chicago Tribune in 2002 named him Sportsman of the Year. There’s no telling how many lives he’s benefited by creating testing techniques that have discouraged sports people from cheating.
Demonstrating the Need for Banned Substance Certification
Bringing the Olympic Standard in Drug Testing to Dietary Supplements
BSCG - Delivering Industry Leading Protection
BSCG’s industry-leading testing menu now includes more than 290 compounds banned in sport, together covering more than 94% of WADA’s adverse analytical findings in the last decade, more than any other provider in the dietary supplement certification industry. As the longtime president and co-founder of BSCG, Oliver Catlin has embraced his father’s legacy and become a thought leader in the field of sports nutrition and supplements.
At BSCG, Oliver has led the way in developing the BSCG brand and expanding its sports-testing menu by adding more than 200 prescription and over-the-counter drugs to its testing menu that no other provider covers bringing a broader level of consumer protection to the certification industry. Today the BSCG industry leading testing menu covers nearly 500 substances in total, almost double what other third-party certification groups offer.
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