LBCD and ABCD publish notes on provisional suspension of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory

This Friday (24.06), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published on its official website that the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBC) has been provisionally suspended due to a non-compliance in the International Standards for Laboratories (ISL).

The suspension, which has been in force since Wednesday (22.06), when LBCD was notified, prohibits the Brazilian laboratory from conducting any urine or blood anti-doping analysis on athletes' samples. "Meanwhile, WADA is working closely with the laboratory in Rio to solve the identified issue", declared the organisation's director-general Olivier Niggli.

The Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory made an announcement:
"The Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD) was informed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of the lab's temporary suspension in relation to sample analysis. LBCD reinforces its excellence, as well as technical and ethical capacity for conducting analyses. The laboratory expects its operations to go back to normal in July, after the WADA committee technical visit.

LBCD's team of professionals, facilities and equipment represent the most modern apparatus in doping control in the world. In the last twelve months, LBCD passed in the audits conducted on site by WADA and responded successfully to the analyses done on single-blind tests by the agency. This year alone, the laboratory has already ran around two thousand urine and blood sample analyses. This standard of excellence will be kept and may be checked out in WADA's next inspection", says the comment, signed by the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD).

The Brazilian Doping Control Authority also issued an announcement about the matter, which is presented in full below:

The Brazilian Doping Control Authority (ABCD) reiterates the importance of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD) in conducting tests at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and as a technical-scientific legacy in the fight against doping in sport. ABCD trusts the work done by the laboratory – with over 2.5 thousand tests conducted since opening – and is confident that the institution will take all the necessary measures for the provisional suspension imposed as a prevention by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to be reviewed as soon as possible.

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