BRASILIA: The 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil was set off to a positive start when FIFA’s chief medical officer, Jiri Dvorak, confirmed a negative outcome from all the doping tests on the eight squads.

Dvorak said no  prohibited substances had been detected in any of the urine and blood samples taken. The analyses of the tests were conducted by the LAD laboratory of Lausanne which is approved by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The use of biological profiling through consequent examinations of urine and blood of all players participating in FIFA competitions is part of the new strategy of football’s world governing body in the fight against doping.

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