WADA shuts down Bloem lab

[RocknRolla]

Everyone should :-)

 

Depends on the opening mechanism of the tap and the door, also the location of the restroom and the percentile of public use.

[RocknRolla]

may as well hold on to the escalator handrail while you are at it.....

[TheJ]

Drug lab gets shut down.

 

BS be like

 

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/e3/e378bcb34eb4120fa0e5836a5c5e88c1630e38519e207e2993f6d329b50f0ace.jpg

[Gen]

Drug lab gets shut down.

 

BS be like

 

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/e3/e378bcb34eb4120fa0e5836a5c5e88c1630e38519e207e2993f6d329b50f0ace.jpg

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[raptor-22]

I wonder what the motivation behind this was.

 

Was it a case of blatant falsifying of test?

Was it purely substandard testing?

Political interference?

 

Whatever, this is not very good.

 

 

its actually very easy for any accredited lab to loose that accreditation. ASTM requires labs to be a participant to the ASTm Round Robin testing where they send outblind samples annually and labs are then requested to test certain properties. The results have to fall within reproducibility of the test method.

costs of maintaining accreditation have increased sinceMr Zpta opened his mouth and fored mr Nene in December, the the loss of accreditation could be attributed to many thing including;

 

- hasn;t paid membership fees for 2016

- hasn't returned blind sample results within time limits

- results of blind samples fall outside of reproducibility limits

- procedures not followed over key test methods that has resulted in skewed data.

- high or low bias of results against the norm for test methods.

 

It would not be a competancy problem since the lab has already been accredited in the past.

it is very likely a procedural issue

[Frosty]

its actually very easy for any accredited lab to loose that accreditation. ASTM requires labs to be a participant to the ASTm Round Robin testing where they send outblind samples annually and labs are then requested to test certain properties. The results have to fall within reproducibility of the test method.

costs of maintaining accreditation have increased sinceMr Zpta opened his mouth and fored mr Nene in December, the the loss of accreditation could be attributed to many thing including;

 

- hasn;t paid membership fees for 2016

- hasn't returned blind sample results within time limits

- results of blind samples fall outside of reproducibility limits

- procedures not followed over key test methods that has resulted in skewed data.

- high or low bias of results against the norm for test methods.

 

It would not be a competancy problem since the lab has already been accredited in the past.

it is very likely a procedural issue

Don't forget the paperwork, or lack thereof.

Part of any ISO-system is to keep documentation (procedures, processes, CA, PA, SOP, etc.) up to date, and includes historical record keeping.

 

About the competency issue - someone at the lab had passed away around the time of the gel filling pharmacist (Durban) issue, so they may have struggled to find a competent replacement. Who knows?

[Gerry Hattrick]

Sport24 have just posted this: http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/South-Africa/testing-wont-be-compromised-saids-20160504

[Patchelicious]

Sport24 have just posted this: http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/South-Africa/testing-wont-be-compromised-saids-20160504

Perhaps this means that future tests will be more thorough.

[Gen]

Perhaps this means that future tests will be more thorough.

We can always hope

[Gen]

I would actually like for them to publish a list of riders tested after each event/weekly basis and then their results once they are available ... total transparency is needed for us to even think of trusting the system.

 

Also a list of TUE's issued

 

 

And they must not say Oh but people will jump to conclusions.. they lost the right to privacy the day they looked the other way with athletes of all sports

[kosmonooit]

Oh goodness me.. so does it then mean that it is open season for the dopers?

 

 

Probably not, samples will have to be sent overseas no doubt.

[Gerhardc]

Will not surprise me if we see a sudden increase in positives from testing samples coming out from the lab in Qatar!!!    

['Dale]

Refurb'

Recalibrate

 

Sounds legit

 

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[Tumbleweed]

Wonder if we'll ever get a facility that can test for this...http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-reveals-technology-used-to-detect-mechanical-doping/?

 

Can't wait for our first bust of that type here...and the chorus of "everyone knew he/she was a mechanical doper..."

[NotSoBigBen]

Mmmmm the plot thickens ...

 

"The only Wada-recognised facility in Africa, the Bloemfontein Laboratory, became the latest to be ordered to cease analysis of athletes’ blood and urine samples after being caught reporting false positives or negatives."

 

"Like those in Beijing and Lisbon, the Bloemfontein lab failed at least one of several regular audits by Wada, which assesses the accuracy of labs’ analysis by secretly sending them samples it already knows to be positive or negative."

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/05/03/wada-steps-in-to-suspend-african-labs-accreditation/

[Tumbleweed]

Mmmmm the plot thickens ...

 

"The only Wada-recognised facility in Africa, the Bloemfontein Laboratory, became the latest to be ordered to cease analysis of athletes’ blood and urine samples after being caught reporting false positives or negatives."

 

"Like those in Beijing and Lisbon, the Bloemfontein lab failed at least one of several regular audits by Wada, which assesses the accuracy of labs’ analysis by secretly sending them samples it already knows to be positive or negative."

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/05/03/wada-steps-in-to-suspend-african-labs-accreditation/

 

Would love to know the period/s that audit/s were done during? Would it negate the lab's results during those times?