We have to wait and see whether Greg is innocent of the charges that he knowingly took a banned substance, nandrolone, which is designed to boost muscle growth and increase strength. This isn't allowed under the ATP rules.
UK Sport recently issued a warning recommending that athletes "should maintain a high level of awareness of the possible hazards of using some nutritional supplements and herbal preparations."
However, some organisations take a very different view. According to the pressure group Alliance for Natural Health, millions of us who don't play tennis competitively but who want to take vitamin supplements for improving our health may find our right to do so curbed by a proposed EU Directive that comes into force in 2005.
EU Food Supplements Directive
The EU Food Supplements Directive will effectively ban around 5,000 products currently available in more advanced EU supplement markets such as the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland. This includes products containing more than 300 vitamin or mineral forms disallowed by the directive, many being food-state nutrients rather than synthetic or inorganic forms.
This process has already begun as the Food Supplements Directive, passed into EU law in June 2002, is implemented by Member State governments and is likely to come into effect in the UK on 1 August 2005.
Alliance for Natural Health
Bianca Jagger and Dame Judi Dench are an unlikely alliance behind a campaign mounted by the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) which recently successfully applied to an English court for leave to challenge the EU Directive in the European Court of Justice.
Last year, ANH was instrumental in helping to table a range of key amendments at First Reading to the Pharmaceuticals Directive as well as the proposed Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, two other European directives that could potentially drastically affect the availability of innovative supplements.
Jonathan Coad, solicitor for the ANH, told me: "There's a growing body of scientific evidence which shows that even what is regarded as a "balanced diet" won't meet the minimum nutritional requirements for the mind and body to function at their best. Strong exercise, stress and exposure to chemicals in the environment increases the body's need for certain nutrients. These are the very kind of nutrients that are banned by the EU Directive.
"I'm delighted that the English court appears to have had no hesitation in granting my client's application for leave to challenge this directive in Europe. The European challenge has to be mounted in these two stages and the application in the UK is essentially a permission hearing only, because courts in this country don't have the power to strike down a piece of European legislation."
Coad is confident of victory both from the perspective of health as well as on the basis of human rights.
But any such victory may be too late to save Gregg and his career if he's found guilty by the ATP of having taken nandrolone.
We await both these decisions with interest.
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