WADA accredited Almaty anti-doping analysis laboratory
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has approved a new laboratory in Kazakhstan to test athletes' samples for performance enhancing drugs, the agency reports.
Almaty. January 21. Kazakhstan Today - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has approved a new laboratory in Kazakhstan to test athletes' samples for performance enhancing drugs, the agency reports.
The lab in Almaty is the 35th accredited by WADA and sixth in Asia. A seventh, in Malaysia, was suspended by WADA last July for not complying with international standards, the Associated Press informed.
WADA president John Fahey says the Almaty lab will help fulfill the anti-doping requirements of a region not previously served.
WADA says three more labs - in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Doha, Qatar; and Mexico City - are still involved in an accreditation process that started two years ago.
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