The Azerbaijan National Anti-Doping Agency (AMADA) has detected prohibited anabolic substances in samples of two athletes who consumed sports nutrition and dietary supplements. Detected substances include methylstenbolone, methandienone, mestanolone, methyltestosterone, 1-androstenedione, 1-testosterone, and oxymesterone.

Athlete Azer Akhmedov (Athletics) has received an 18-month period of ineligibility, Rufat Ismailov (Judo) – a 12-month period of ineligibility. Initially, athletes were suspended to a 4-year ban each, but it was reduced due to the results of an investigation initiated by AMADA.
 
Thus, Rufat Ismailov's suspension period began on May 22, 2018 and expired on May 22, 2019, and Azer Akhmedov's – began on November 23, 2017 and expired on May 23, 2019.
 
In the course of AMADA's investigation, presence of doping substances in the athletes' samples was attributed to their use of certain sports nutrition and dietary supplements. According to athletes, they used AMINO Hardcore supplements produced by Mega Sport.
 
AMADA took into account the absence of relevant information on presence of prohibited substances in their composition on the label of product packaging provided by athletes, and forwarded these supplements to Cologne, to a laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). According to anti-doping rules, sports nutrition and dietary supplements can be sent for inspection to the laboratory only in the case of an investigation of a recorded anti-doping violation.
 
Laboratory analysis showed that dietary supplements presented by these athletes are contaminated with methylstenbolone, methandienone, mestanolone, methyltestosterone, 1-androstenedione, 1-testosterone, and oxymesterone.
 
Taking this into account, AMADA warns that the use of sports nutrition and dietary supplements by athletes can lead to an adverse result of the doping test. Also, the manufacturer of sports nutrition and dietary supplements may not always provide complete or accurate information about the composition of their product. However, this does not absolve the athlete, who used the dietary supplement, of liability in case of a positive doping test.