“…The increasing number of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents available has hitherto presented problems in screening procedures for doping control. Although several chromatographic screening procedures have been described for individual compounds (Adams and Cliffe, 1965;Nash, Bopp and Rubin, 1971 ;Ferry, Ferry, Moller and McQueen, 1974;Kaiser and Vangiessen, 1974;Bland, Blake and Ray, 1976;Smith and Humphrey, 1977) these procedures are not applicable to this class of drug as a whole, because the chemical structures of its members are too diverse. In the work described here, use has been made of the presence of the carboxylic acid group, which is common to all of the compounds studied.…”