WSR 16-09-015 PERMANENT RULES HORSE RACING COMMISSION [Filed April 11, 2016, 8:42 a.m., effective May 12, 2016] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: Clarifies the levels of approved NSAIDs that may appear in a post race sample and when a violation is considered.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 260-70-640.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 67.16.020.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 16-06-023 on February 22, 2016.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: April 8, 2016.
Douglas L. Moore
Executive Secretary
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 12-07-005, filed 3/9/12, effective 4/9/12)
WAC 260-70-640 Permitted medication.
Trainers using permitted medication in the care of their horses are subject to all rules governing such medications. Failure to administer permitted medication to a horse on a program of permitted medication is a violation of these rules.
(1) The use of one of three approved nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is permitted under the following conditions:
(a) The drug may not exceed the following permitted serum or plasma threshold concentrations, which are consistent with administration by a single intravenous injection at least twenty-four hours before the post time for the race in which the horse is entered:
(i) Phenylbutazone - 5 micrograms per milliliter in overnight and nongraded stakes races, and 2 micrograms per milliliter in graded stakes races;
(ii) Flunixin - 50 nanograms per milliliter;
(iii) Ketoprofen - 10 nanograms per milliliter.
(b) No NSAID, including the approved NSAIDs listed in this rule, may be administered within the twenty-four hours before post time for the race in which the horse is entered.
(c) The presence of ((more than one of the three)) a second approved NSAID((s, with the exception of)) will not be considered a violation if the approved NSAID is not over the secondary threshold as follows:
(i) Phenylbutazone ((in a concentration below 1 microgram per milliliter of serum or plasma or)) - 1 mcg per milliliter;
(ii) Flunixin - 3 ng per milliliter;
(iii) Ketoprofen - 1 ng per milliliter.
(d) Any unapproved NSAID in the post-race serum or plasma sample is not permitted. The use of all but one of the approved NSAIDs must be discontinued at least forty-eight hours before the post time for the race in which the horse is entered.
(2) Any horse to which a NSAID has been administered is subject to having a blood and/or urine sample(s) taken at the direction of an official veterinarian to determine the quantitative NSAID level(s) and/or the presence of other drugs which may be present in the blood or urine sample(s).
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