Satellite lab planned for World Cup

Published September 19, 2006

BRIDGETOWN, Sept 18: Barbados is setting up a satellite laboratory of the World Anti-Doping Agency to perform drug tests for next year's cricket World Cup. “We have sought to have a WADA-accredited lab to use here as a satellite lab,” Dr Adrian Lorde, chief of the

Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization, said on Sunday.

“The London office has sent senior officials down to look at our lab and people from here have been to England to look at how it's being done.”—AP

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