But after a health scare over another designerdrug, China White, which was synthesized as a legal substitute for heroin, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency banned MDMA in 1985.
Their returns this year range from the 57% of corporate information-data-services provider Teradata ( TDC), to 149% for drugdesigner and manufacturer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( REGN).
The new test is the latest weapon in WADA's arsenal following the development of tests for the endurance-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO) and so-called designer steroids such as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which have been chemically engineered to deceive the testers.