Emphasizing the focus on the well-being of its athletes, IFSA founder and president Douglas Edmunds, Ph.D. laid out the present drug-testing plan for 2004 IFSA events.

The current schedule calls for random tests at the following 2004 IFSA competitions: Britain's Strongest Man, Europe's Strongest Man, Canada's Strongest Man, and the IFSA-USA Nationals, as well as at World's Strongest Man.  Edmunds reiterated that IFSA already has some resources in place to answer athletes's questions related to the drug-testing program, which is part of a larger IFSA emphasis on the health and safety its strongman competitors.