Victor Conte, the BALCO founder, remarked that the recently formulated anti-doping fight that is symbolized by collection of blood samples from minor league players is fundamentally flawed.

It was further remarked by Conte that players will be aware of blood tests in advance and this appears more to him as ‘announced’ or ‘IQ’ testing instead of drug testing”.

From NYdailynews.com:

“A baseball player could possibly inject HGH as soon as leaving a ballpark and test negative from a blood sample collected ‘post-game’ the following day,” says Conte, who taught BALCO’s customers in Olympic sports how to evade supposedly strict anti-doping programs.

“HGH injections are routinely done at night before bed, so a morning blood sample would be the target,” says Conte. “The available test for HGH requires a random blood collection protocol to be considered anything more than a PR move by MLB.”

Growth hormone is believed to have replaced steroids as the muscle-builder of choice in baseball since the league began testing for steroids. HGH has been banned by MLB since 2005.

Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the prohibitive list of the World Anti-Doping Agency, expressed a different notion by telling to the Daily News that this is a noteworthy step conceptually.