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The NFL is adding game-day testing for performance-enhancing substances -- but not recreational drugs -- this season under the new collective bargaining agreement. The league's senior vice president of law and labor policy, Adolpho Birch, said Tuesday on a conference call with reporters that tests weren't conducted in the past on days there were games "because of logistical issues involved, much more so than any philosophical issues."
Reported by ESPN.com
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Birch would not say where talks between the NFL and the players' union stand -- or even if they've started -- about details that need to be worked out before the league can introduce random, year-round blood testing for human growth hormone. The NFL and union agreed last week that HGH testing can become part of the sport's drug program under the new, 10-year collective bargaining agreement that was ratified by players Thursday. But first issues such as the appeals process and how tests are taken have to be negotiated. The only limitation on the number of tests is that a player may be tested a maximum of six times each offseason, from February until the start of training camp.
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