Abstract
Floyd Landis, a professional bicycle racer from Murrieta, California, won the 2006 Tour de France. However, not many days after the race’s conclusion, the Laboratoire National de D’pistage du Dopage (LNDD) “announced” (actually the information was leaked to the press) that a urine sample obtained from Floyd after stage 17 had been found to be positive for a form of synthetic testosterone.

If this finding were to be upheld, Landis would be stripped of his title and also banned from participation in the sport. Landis denied any sports doping and his strategy in fighting these charges has been to try to generate public support and to make all of the documentation of the LNDD tests available to the public.

GC/MS is used by LNDD for preliminary sample screening, and carbon stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry is used for final confirmation.

From the standpoint of a forensic analytical chemist with experience in forensic laboratory accreditation standards, this presentation will examine the analytical data and correspondence from the Landis case in terms of: chain of custody requirements; World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) guidelines and LNDD SOP; and reasonable standards of good laboratory practice.

Speaker Background
Robert (Bob) D. Blackledge received his BS (Chem.) from The Citadel in 1960 and his MS (Chem.) from the University of Georgia in 1962. Starting with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Tallahassee Crime Lab in 1971, Bob worked in forensic science for over thirty years.

The author or co-author of roughly forty journal articles and book chapters, his interests are wide-ranging but his special passion is trace evidence. Reports of his research have been published in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, the FBI Crime Laboratory Digest, the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Science & Justice, Forensic Science International, Forensic Science Review, Microgram Journal, and Analytica Chimica Acta. He is the editor for “Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge: New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis”, published by Wiley-Interscience on 03 Aug. 2007.

Meeting details

Date:	Thursday	December 13 , 2007
Time:	6:00 pm	Social hour, registration (no-host cocktails)
	7:00 pm	Dinner
	8:00 pm	Presentation
Dinner:	featuring:	Veal Roast with Scalloped Potatoes and Vegetables
		Breast of Chicken Chasseur with Vegetables and Rice
		Salmon with Champagne Sauce, Vegetables and Rice
		Vegetarian Pasta
Cost:	$30	BAMS members*
	$40	Non-members
	$60	BAMS membership plus dinner cost
	$20	Students only
	$300	2007 Corporate Sponsors
		Dinner reservations required by noon on Tuesday December 11, 2007

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