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Local body ready to begin drug-testing
[SIZE=-1]Jamaica Observer, Jamaica [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]THE Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), the body responsible for doping control locally, will carry out its first doping tests on athletes before the end of the year, the Observer has learnt.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]JADCO's executive director, Dr Patrece Charles Freeman, told the Observer that the Commission, which was officially established by an act of parliament in August, was now ready to fulfil its mandate of conducting testing on national athletes.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I can't tell you when, but we'll be testing before the end of the year," she said. Freeman said JADCO had purchased doping control kits - 1000 urine sample kits and 50 blood sample kits were in its possession and would be used to carry out testing.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Freeman, who graduated with a PhD in Public Health from the University of the West Indies (UWI) last year, said JADCO will be responsible for athletes in all sports, including Paralympic and Special Olympians.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Jamaica Observer, Jamaica [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]THE Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), the body responsible for doping control locally, will carry out its first doping tests on athletes before the end of the year, the Observer has learnt.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]JADCO's executive director, Dr Patrece Charles Freeman, told the Observer that the Commission, which was officially established by an act of parliament in August, was now ready to fulfil its mandate of conducting testing on national athletes.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I can't tell you when, but we'll be testing before the end of the year," she said. Freeman said JADCO had purchased doping control kits - 1000 urine sample kits and 50 blood sample kits were in its possession and would be used to carry out testing.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Freeman, who graduated with a PhD in Public Health from the University of the West Indies (UWI) last year, said JADCO will be responsible for athletes in all sports, including Paralympic and Special Olympians.[/SIZE]
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