Positive morphine tests probably from contaminated feed – racing body
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Contaminated Equus caballus feed appears to live on behind a cluster of positive morphine tests inward racehorses, according to British racing authorities.
The British Horseracing Authority has provided an update on its query next the positive tests inward horses, including the Queen’s highly rated mare, Estimate.
The authorization said it had completed initial inquiries, describing the circumstances inward all precisely i of the cases equally real similar.
Its investigations pointed to the source of the positive exam existence contaminated feed, it said.
The authorization said the conception at this phase was for all the cases to live on heard together past times its Disciplinary Panel.
In the other case, involving a yard alongside entirely i positive sample, spell the show was likewise suggestive of contaminated feed, differences inward the circumstances meant that the illustration would live on heard separately.
It said it was awaiting exam results on 2 outstanding B samples.
In all, in that place induce got been 8 positive tests.
The authorization said inward a statement: “At the hearings, the Disciplinary Panel volition live on presented alongside the circumstances pertaining to each Equus caballus as well as they volition attain upward one's heed what course of report of activity should live on taken.
“If the panel honor that the source of the positives was contaminated feed, BHA’s seat volition live on that where the trainer has taken all reasonable precautions to safeguard against a positive test, no penalisation should live on imposed on the trainer.
“However, according to the Rules of Racing, the horses involved should live on disqualified.”
British feed theatre Dodson & Horrell confirmed slow inward July that it had launched an investigation, focused on possible cistron contamination affecting a production called Alfalfa Oil Plus.
It said a thorough investigation was taking house alongside the supplier of the cistron to assess how whatsoever contamination may induce got occurred.
“Preliminary investigations advise that whatsoever contamination of this cistron production did non spill out at Dodson & Horrell’s site,” the fellowship said.
It recalled batch numbers calendar week 20-28 of Alfalfa Oil Plus equally a precautionary measure.
“From information currently available to us, it appears that whatsoever contamination may induce got come upward from poppy seeds that spill out naturally inward the environment,” it said at the time.
It said naturally occurring prohibited substances, known equally Nops, were either naturally introduce inside sure enough feed ingredients or spill out equally a lawsuit of inadvertent cross-contamination during processing, carry or storage.
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