Clean Sport · For competition horses

Every batch tested before it reaches your horse

Competing comes with strict rules on what your horse eats. That's why a sample of every batch of our horse supplements goes to a specialist horse-racing lab in France before it goes on sale.

How we test

Three checks for every batch

  1. Careful with herbs

    Some plants naturally carry banned substances. We follow the NOPS code of BETA, the British Equestrian Trade Association, when we choose our herbs.

  2. Tested before it's sold

    A sample of every batch goes to LCH, the laboratory of French horse racing. The batch only goes on sale after the result is in.

  3. A certificate per batch

    Each result is on a lab certificate with the batch number. Want the one for your tub? Mail us.

What "negative" means: the levels found are below the acceptable daily amounts in the French technical standard for horse feed (Oqualim).

What we test for

12 banned substances that can end up in feed naturally

They're called NOPS: naturally occurring prohibited substances. They come from plants that can grow in or near crops.

  • Roasted coffee beans3

    Coffee, cocoa and teaStimulants

    • Caffeine
    • Theobromine
    • Theophylline
  • Opium poppy flower3

    Opium poppyOpiates

    • Morphine
    • Codeine
    • Thebaine
  • Spiky green fruit of thorn apple (Datura stramonium)2

    Thorn apple and nightshadeWeeds that can grow between crops

    • Atropine
    • Scopolamine
  • Flowering reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)3

    Canary grassesPhalaris species

    • Bufotenine
    • O-methylbufotenine
    • DMT
  • Sprouting barley grains1

    Sprouting grainsSuch as barley

    • Hordenine
  • This test covers the 12 NOPS. It is not a test for every substance on the FEI list. Clean Sport is the name of our own policy, not an FEI certificate.

MSM

MSM is allowed in FEI sport, at the daily dose on the pack

MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) is a natural sulphur compound. Four of our supplements contain it.

  • FEI sport Not on the list

    MSM was taken off the FEI list in 2018. A proposal to add it again for 2024 was dropped.

  • Horse racing Limit of 1,200 µg/mL

    Racing rules (IFHA) set a limit of 1,200 micrograms per millilitre of urine.

  • National rules Check first

    National federations can have their own rules. Check yours before you compete.

Allowed in FEI competitions at the daily dose on the pack:

Allowed at the recommended dose. MSM is not on the FEI list, so you can keep feeding these supplements at the daily dose on the pack during FEI competitions. Your horse's total MSM intake counts, so think of other feeds and supplements too, and of DMSO, which the body turns into MSM. Racing? Ask us first, because a urine limit applies there.

Your part

What stays your responsibility

Under FEI rules, the rider (the Person Responsible) is responsible for anything found in their horse's sample, also when it came from a supplement.

  1. Keep the batch number

    Keep the pack, or write down the batch number, so you can always show what your horse ate.

  2. Check the FEI list

    Look up any ingredient in the FEI list of prohibited substances.

  3. Tell your team

    Make sure everyone who feeds or treats your horse, including your vet, knows what it gets.

Tested products

Our horse supplements, tested batch by batch

Questions before a competition?

Ask our vet team

Send us your batch number and we'll send you the lab certificate.

Copy email: info@curafyt.com
Sources
  1. Laboratoire des Courses Hippiques (LCH), Verrières-le-Buisson, France: certificate of analysis per batch. Screened: caffeine, theobromine, theophylline, atropine, scopolamine, morphine, O-methylbufotenine, dimethyltryptamine, bufotenine, hordenine, thebaine and codeine. Result judged against the Oqualim technical standard for equine nutrition. Available on request.
  2. British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA): Feed safety and the NOPS code; NOPS Code, 2021 revision (sources of each substance).
  3. FEI: Equine Prohibited Substances List.
  4. MSM removed from the FEI Controlled Medication list from 1 January 2018: Your Horse.
  5. MSM not added to the 2024 FEI list: British Equestrian, 26 September 2023.
  6. International Residue Limit for MSM in racing, 1,200 µg/mL urine, and DMSO as a source of MSM: IFHA; National Horseracing Authority notice.
  7. Responsibility of the Person Responsible for supplements: FEI warning on supplement use.
  8. Photos, Wikimedia Commons: roasted coffee beans by MarkSweep (public domain); opium poppy by Harry Rose (CC BY 2.0); thorn apple by Jason Swanson (CC0); reed canary grass by Robert Flogaus-Faust (CC BY 4.0); sprouting barley by Bapt-francois (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cropped.