NEWS RELEASE September 9, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 HORSERACING TESTING LABORATORIES COMMITTEE APPROVES ACCREDITATION OF THE NEW YORK DRUG TESTING LABORATORY The Horseracing Testing Laboratory Committee of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) met today and voted to fully accredit the New York Drug Testing Laboratory (NYDTL) pursuant to
NEWS RELEASE August 9, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 PENNSYLVANIA BECOMES 10TH STATE TO ADOPT NATIONAL UNIFORM MEDICATION PROGRAM IN ITS ENTIRETY: RMTC CITES SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS AT MID-YEAR STATES REPRESENTING 94% OF U.S. PARI-MUTUEL HANDLE NOW USING THE CONTROLLED THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES LIST The Racing Medication and Test Consortium (RMTC) today announced that
NEWS RELEASE June 9, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RMTC ADDS DR. CAROLYN COOPER TO TASK FORCE ON GLAUCINE The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) has added a member to its task force charged with reviewing information on glaucine and addressing the issue of recent positives for the substance. Dr. Carolyn
NEWS RELEASE June 2, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RMTC FORMS GLAUCINE TASK FORCE The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) has formed a task force to review information on glaucine and address the issue of recent positives for the substance. Earlier this year, several RMTC-accredited laboratories finalized positive tests for the
NEWS RELEASE February 26, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RMTC BOARD MAKES THRESHOLD RECOMMENDATIONS, APPROVES AN EXPANDED OUT-OF-COMPETITION TESTING MODEL RULE The board of directors of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) voted to approve several important recommendations from its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and Horseracing Testing Laboratories Committee (HTLC) at
NEWS RELEASE February 19, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE STATEMENT To assist veterinarians in the medical treatment of racehorses, the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) created a Controlled Therapeutic Substances (CTS) list. The CTS list sets forth therapeutic medications that veterinarians can use,
NEWS RELEASE February 16, 2016 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RMTC ORGANIZES WORKSHOP ON HAIR TESTING AT UC DAVIS LABORATORY The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) organized an equine racing chemist workshop February 8-9 at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine to foster uniformity in testing of hair samples. The workshop,
NEWS RELEASE October 15, 2015 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 RMTC BOARD AMENDS ITS LIST OF CONTROLLED THERAPEUTIC MEDICATIONS, RECEIVES UPDATE ON NATIONAL UNIFORM MEDICATION PROGRAM, GRANTS INTERIM ACCREDITATION TO TEXAS A&M LABORATORY At its October 13 meeting in Atlanta, GA, the board of directors of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) took
NEWS RELEASE October 8, 2015 Contact: Dionne Benson, Executive Director, RMTC, (859) 224-2844 RMTC STATEMENT ON METHOCARBAMOL (ROBAXIN) THRESHOLD/ TREATMENT PROTOCOLS The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission recently suspended trainer Graham Motion for five days and fined him $500 for a medication overage involving the winner Kitten’s Point in Keeneland’s Bewitch Stakes. Kentucky officials determined that Kitten's
NEWS RELEASE July 7, 2015 Contact: Hallie Roach Lewis (859) 224-2848 MID-YEAR UPDATE: SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS MADE IN ADOPTION OF NATIONAL UNIFORM MEDICATION PROGRAM In the last six months, the horse racing industry made significant progress toward the uniform adoption of a national medication program, as regulators in a number of additional jurisdictions adopted reforms developed
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