July 28, 2006 Testing Benefits and Levels of Testosterone Is Difficult By GINA KOLATA
"When we get cases to review, the chain of custody is really paramount," he said. "If it gets out of sight for two seconds, someone can squirt testosterone into it. And there are people like that who would like to see an American, the winner of the Tour de France, disgraced. That's why the chain of custody has to be codified."
And that is why the urine samples are divided in two, the A sample and the B sample.
Imagine that! The labs aren't perfect? oh my!
The real remedy to the situation is to have multiple labs testing each sample. 3 labs test the A sample and 3 labs test the B sample.
I guarantee each lab will give different results/levels of drugs even though they test the same sample.
BTW, How many people in here have ever tried to pipette 0.001ml of a liquid? 1ml = 1cm cubed
July 28, 2006 Testing Benefits and Levels of Testosterone Is Difficult By GINA KOLATA
"When we get cases to review, the chain of custody is really paramount," he said. "If it gets out of sight for two seconds, someone can squirt testosterone into it. And there are people like that who would like to see an American, the winner of the Tour de France, disgraced. That's why the chain of custody has to be codified."
And that is why the urine samples are divided in two, the A sample and the B sample.
Imagine that! The labs aren't perfect? oh my!
The real remedy to the situation is to have multiple labs testing each sample. 3 labs test the A sample and 3 labs test the B sample.
I guarantee each lab will give different results/levels of drugs even though they test the same sample.
BTW, How many people in here have ever tried to pipette 0.001ml of a liquid? 1ml = 1cm cubed
I think I probably did in my chem major days, but I've totally blocked it out.
The real remedy to the situation is to have multiple labs testing each sample. 3 labs test the A sample and 3 labs test the B sample.
I guarantee each lab will give different results/levels of drugs even though they test the same sample.
BTW, How many people in here have ever tried to pipette 0.001ml of a liquid? 1ml = 1cm cubed
Once upon a time I was responsible for calibrating 0.0005ml pipettes, among other things. Then I got to gather the manufacturer specs and any other research data I could get and argue with the QA director exactly what constituted a passing result.
