EHFA issued the preliminary results of its Fitness Against Doping project in November 2011. The association's statement was dated 8 November, and the results were reported under a headline saying that they shed new light on the state of the fitness sector.
The project had been awarded European funding in November 2010. Its subject was anti-doping education where people actually train. Doping policy in Europe had been built around competitive sport, where testing and sanctions apply and where national anti-doping organisations do the work; the people who train in gyms, and the operators who serve them, sat outside that system and had no equivalent framework to work from. The project therefore worked with gym operators on education rather than on testing, which is the side of anti-doping a commercial facility can act on by itself.
Where the results went mattered as much as what they showed. The association's projects were built to leave something behind - a standard, a report, a set of materials - and the anti-doping work was meant to give operators and their staff something usable rather than a statement of the problem. A call for feedback on the project's interim report followed through the association's news pages in December. See Fitness Against Doping and EU projects.