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Major League Baseball and the players' association have agreed to discuss recommendations from a report exposing widepread steroid use that could lead to a further crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs.
A report from former US Senator George Mitchell last week said steroids and human growth hormone had been used in all 30 major league teams. "Both sides are amenable to beginning discussions regarding the Mitchell recommendations that need to be collectively bargained," Rich Levin, a spokesman for Commissioner Bud Selig, told the Baseball website mlb.com.
Two US Congressional panels have announced plans to hold hearings next month.
- REUTERS
