© Thomas Tobin 2002
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Efficacy of Equine Drug Testing
•Rate of detection of performance altering agents in racing is relatively low •“Positives” in about 1-1,000 samples tested. •All identifications confirmed by mass spectrometry in the primary and the referee laboratory.
•“Top-end” of racing is actually very clean
•Thanks in part to the technology I have just described