RMTC Hosts Horse Hair Testing Workshop at UC Davis

Participants learned how to detect, identify, and analyze anabolic steroids and other substances using hair samples.
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The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) organized an equine racing chemist workshop Feb. 8-9 at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) School of Veterinary Medicine to foster uniformity in testing of hair samples.

The workshop, hosted by UC Davis’ Maddy Lab, was open to any RMTC-accredited laboratory that wanted to obtain the necessary knowledge and hands-on experience needed to conduct hair testing for the detection of prohibited substances. Eight analysts representing the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Truesdail, Industrial, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic (TVMDL), and Pennsylvania Equine Toxicology and Research laboratories attended.

As part of the course, participants learned the Maddy Lab’s Standard Operating Procedures, followed the technical process and acquired the skill necessary to transfer the method back to their own laboratories.

“The workshop is timely as the racing industry is always searching for methods with a long window of detection,” said Scott Stanley, PhD, director of the Maddy Lab. “Drugs are locked in the hair fiber and remain there until the hair is lost or cut. As a result, hair analysis offers long-term detection of many historic drugs of abuse

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