---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 2401"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "2401"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/2401"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — International Sports Doping"
---

# §2401. Definitions

- (1) **Anti-doping organization—** The term “anti-doping organization” has the meaning given the term in Article 2 of the [Convention](#4).
- (2) **Athlete—** The term “athlete” has the meaning given the term in Article 2 of the [Convention](#4).
- (3) **Code—** The term “Code” means the World Anti-Doping Code most recently adopted by [WADA](#11) on March 5, 2003.
- (4) **Convention—** The term “Convention” means the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization International Convention Against Doping in Sport done at Paris October 19, 2005, and ratified by the United States in 2008.
- (5) **Major international sport competition—** The term “Major International Sport Competition”—[^1]
  - (A) means a competition—
    - (i) in which one or more United States [athletes](#2) and three or more [athletes](#2) from other countries participate;
    - (ii) that is governed by the anti-doping rules and principles of the [Code](#3); and
    - (iii) in which—
      - (I) the competition organizer or sanctioning body receives sponsorship or other financial support from an organization doing business in the United States; or
      - (II) the competition organizer or sanctioning body receives compensation for the right to broadcast the competition in the United States; and
  - (B) includes a competition that is a single event or a competition that consists of a series of events held at different times which, when combined, qualify an [athlete](#2) or team for an award or other recognition.
- (6) **Person—** The term “person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity.
- (7) **Prohibited method—** The term “prohibited method” has the meaning given the term in Article 2 of the [Convention](#4).
- (8) **Prohibited substance—** The term “prohibited substance” has the meaning given the term in Article 2 of the [Convention](#4).
- (9) **Scheme in commerce—** The term “scheme in commerce” means any scheme effectuated in whole or in part through the use in interstate or foreign commerce of any [facility](/usc/21/350g.md?p=o-2) for transportation or communication.
- (10) **USADA—** The term “USADA” means the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
- (11) **WADA—** The term “WADA” means the World Anti-Doping Agency.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Term is not capitalized as used in this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–206, § 2, Dec. 4, 2020, 134 Stat. 998.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 116–206, § 1, Dec. 4, 2020, 134 Stat. 998, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter and amending section 3663A of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure] may be cited as the ‘Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019’.”