Section Game 14.23 - Testing laboratory(1) QUALIFICATIONS. Any laboratory selected to perform testing services for the division shall, at a minimum, meet all requirements established by the division in the request for proposal or request for bid issued pursuant to subch. IV of ch. 16, Stats. These shall include, but not limited to;(a) Chain of custody procedures sufficient to allow introduction of test sample results as evidence in administrative hearings before the division or in judicial proceedings in the circuit courts of Wisconsin;(b) Personnel with background sufficient to qualify as expert witnesses in the detection of substances in bodily fluid samples in hearings before the division or the circuit courts of Wisconsin.(c) Participation in a program to evaluate and ensure laboratory quality control;(d) Drug specific immunoassay testing which may include, but is not limited to, Particle Concentration Fluorescence Immunoassay (PCFIA), Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), Radio Immunoassay (RIA), or any combination, to perform screening and detection tests of urine and blood samples for drug synthetic narcotics, opiates, stimulants, steroids, anti-inflammatories, depressants, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers and anti-biotics;(e) Confirmation procedures utilizing gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) or other alternative computer aided instrument method of appropriate methodology;(f) One year of experience as a testing laboratory for another racing jurisdiction in North America utilizing the testing methodologies in pars. (d) and (e);(g) One member of the laboratory personnel shall be a registered member of the association of official racing chemists (AORC), who shall attend the annual meeting of the AORC at the laboratory's expense;(h) No laboratory staff, officer, administrator, or holder of any ownership interest in the laboratory shall have a financial interest, either directly or indirectly, in racing greyhounds, any entity licensed by the division, the racing industry, or any other conflict of interest, including those contained in s. 562.025, Stats.(2) PROCEDURES. The division shall select a laboratory pursuant to a request for proposal or request for bid issued pursuant to the procedures set forth in the department of administration's procurement manual as required by subch. IV of ch. 16, Stats.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Administration [Gaming] Game 14.23
Cr. Register, July, 1990, No. 415, eff. 8-1-90; CR 03-070: am. (1) (h) and (2) Register November 2003 No. 575, eff. 12-1-03.