{"id":337673,"date":"2018-11-12T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=337673"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:28:07","slug":"stockholm-laboratory-receives-six-month-partial-suspension-from-wada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/stockholm-laboratory-receives-six-month-partial-suspension-from-wada\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm Laboratory Receives Six-Month Partial Suspension from WADA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has delivered a six-month partial suspension to the Doping Control Laboratory at the Karolinska University Hospital (Stockholm Laboratory).<\/p>\n<p>The partial suspension is related to the Stockholm Laboratory&#8217;s gas chromatography combustion isotope ration mass spectrometry (GC\/C\/IRMS) method. A non-conformity with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL) was discovered for the GC\/C\/IRMS method and was followed by a disciplinary proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>The provisional partial suspension was announced on August 2, 2018 and will last for a period of six months from the original suspension decision (August 1, 2018) or until the Chairman of the WADA Executive Committee reinstates the lab&#8217;s accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>According to WADA&#8217;s announcement, the Stockholm Laboratory can continue with regular anti-doping activities, but any samples that would require GC\/C\/IRMS analysis will need to be securely transported to a different WADA-accredited laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>GC\/C\/IRMS instruments became commercially available in 1990 and were introduced to the Olympic Games at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games for demonstration purposes. Two years later, GC\/C\/IRMS instruments were used at the 1998 Nagana Winter Games to analyze 450 samples. The GC\/C\/IRMS instruments have &#8220;provided doping control with the ability to disciriminate&#8230;between endogenous steroid metabolites and their synthetically derived analogs,&#8221; according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/jms.1437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Journal of Mass Spectrometry.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wada-ama.org\/en\/media\/news\/2018-11\/wada-confirms-six-month-partial-suspension-of-stockholm-laboratory-for-a-specific\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the full announcement from WADA here.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has delivered a six-month partial suspension to the Doping Control Laboratory at the Karolinska University Hospital (Stockholm Laboratory). 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