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[SIZE=-1]New York Daily News, NY[SIZE=-1] - Teri Thompson[/SIZE][SIZE=-1], Nathaniel Vinton[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The IOC reserves the right to store samples for eight years and retest them if scientists develop new detection methods. But America's professional sports leagues don't preserve samples for retroactive testing, citing high costs of storage. Many anti-doping experts say the mere possibility of retesting will act as a deterrent against the use of drugs such as HGH. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]But that view is not universal, and other anti-doping authorities say they believe anti-doping dollars can find a better use than the massive, secured freezers that would be necessary to store baseball players' samples for years. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I don't see the merit in this," says Christiane Ayotte, director of the highly regarded Doping Control Laboratory at Montreal's Institute National de la Recherch Scientifique. "I would rather see organizations do an out-of-competition testing, being there at the right time instead of keeping the samples forever." [...][/SIZE]
Ayotte's lab, which is certified by the World Anti-Doping Agency, conducts drug testing for Major League Baseball. The lab tests about 36,000 blood and urine samples a year, says Ayotte, and typically destroys them about three months after they've been tested. (The vast majority of the samples are urine, not blood, and MLB does not test blood; urine requires simple freezing, but preserving blood is more difficult.)
Ayotte says her lab would soon be flooded with samples if baseball suddenly asked her to store them for the future. She would have to build a whole new wing of freezers, with restricted access and backup compressors for the refrigeration. Compared to smarter collection policies, she says, developing a system to store samples would be a waste of money and energy.
"It would be more efficient if they collect the sample at the time when the athletes are using, instead of doing random tests and asking us to store them forever," says Ayotte.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2009/05/02/2009-05-02_frozen_blast_from_past_haunts_barry_bonds.html&cid=0&ei=oUX9SevDHIio8ATqpt2ACA&usg=AFQjCNHkTYIDqyYeB2iFnIFAl6wuXakGZg
[SIZE=-1]New York Daily News, NY[SIZE=-1] - Teri Thompson[/SIZE][SIZE=-1], Nathaniel Vinton[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The IOC reserves the right to store samples for eight years and retest them if scientists develop new detection methods. But America's professional sports leagues don't preserve samples for retroactive testing, citing high costs of storage. Many anti-doping experts say the mere possibility of retesting will act as a deterrent against the use of drugs such as HGH. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]But that view is not universal, and other anti-doping authorities say they believe anti-doping dollars can find a better use than the massive, secured freezers that would be necessary to store baseball players' samples for years. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I don't see the merit in this," says Christiane Ayotte, director of the highly regarded Doping Control Laboratory at Montreal's Institute National de la Recherch Scientifique. "I would rather see organizations do an out-of-competition testing, being there at the right time instead of keeping the samples forever." [...][/SIZE]
Ayotte's lab, which is certified by the World Anti-Doping Agency, conducts drug testing for Major League Baseball. The lab tests about 36,000 blood and urine samples a year, says Ayotte, and typically destroys them about three months after they've been tested. (The vast majority of the samples are urine, not blood, and MLB does not test blood; urine requires simple freezing, but preserving blood is more difficult.)
Ayotte says her lab would soon be flooded with samples if baseball suddenly asked her to store them for the future. She would have to build a whole new wing of freezers, with restricted access and backup compressors for the refrigeration. Compared to smarter collection policies, she says, developing a system to store samples would be a waste of money and energy.
"It would be more efficient if they collect the sample at the time when the athletes are using, instead of doing random tests and asking us to store them forever," says Ayotte.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2009/05/02/2009-05-02_frozen_blast_from_past_haunts_barry_bonds.html&cid=0&ei=oUX9SevDHIio8ATqpt2ACA&usg=AFQjCNHkTYIDqyYeB2iFnIFAl6wuXakGZg
