WSR 18-07-015 PERMANENT RULES HORSE RACING COMMISSION [Filed March 9, 2018, 2:05 p.m., effective April 9, 2018] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing. Purpose: To amend thresholds for NSAID's to the recommended levels published by the ARCI and RMTC as a national standard. Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 260-70-640. Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 67.16.020. Adopted under notice filed as WSR 18-03-139 on January 22, 2018. Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0. Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0. Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: March 9, 2018. Douglas L. Moore Executive Secretary
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 16-09-015, filed 4/11/16, effective 5/12/16)
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)) 2.0 micrograms per milliliter ((in overnight and nongraded stakes races, and 2 micrograms per milliliter in graded stakes races));
(ii) Flunixin - ((50)) 20 nanograms per milliliter;
(iii) Ketoprofen - ((10)) 2 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 a second approved NSAID will ((not)) be considered a violation if the second of the approved NSAIDs is ((not)) over the secondary threshold as follows:
(i) Phenylbutazone - ((1)) 0.3 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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