{"id":2377,"date":"2009-06-26T01:52:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2009-06-26T01:52:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:52:04","slug":"widespread-drug-contamination-found-at-racetracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/widespread-drug-contamination-found-at-racetracks\/","title":{"rendered":"WIDESPREAD DRUG CONTAMINATION FOUND AT RACETRACKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px;\">Since racetrack environments contain residues of multiple drugs that can be detected by standard testing procedures, environmental drug contamination as an explanation for positive drug tests in racehorses needs to be considered like it currently is in human athletes, said researcher Steven A. Barker, BS, MS, PhD, Everett D. Besch Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University&#8217;s School of Veterinary Medicine.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-13b2x37757x111202&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since racetrack environments contain residues of multiple drugs that can be detected by standard testing procedures, environmental drug contamination as an explanation for positive drug tests in racehorses needs to be considered like it currently is in human athletes, said researcher Steven A. Barker, BS, MS, PhD, Everett D. Besch Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}