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Nature 455, 1176 (30 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/4551176a; Published online 29 October 2008

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Doping: world agency sets standards to promote fair play

Arne Ljungqvist1, Luis Horta1 & Gary Wadler1

  1. World Anti-Doping Agency, Stock Exchange Tower, 800 Place Victoria, Suite 1700, PO Box 120, Montreal, Quebec H4Z 1B7, Canada
    Email: violet.maziar@wada-ama.org

We at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) find parts of Donald Berry's Commentary 'The science of doping' (Nature 454, 692–693; 2008) potentially damaging to the fight against doping in sports.WADA's accredited laboratories, including the French national laboratory LNDD (which handled the Floyd Landis case), must meet standards set by the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL) in validation methods, staff competency and chain of custody, for example.

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