The Lab Documentation Package

This is an archive post that will be updated as we learn more.

Landis got his full Laboratory Documentation Package (LDP) on August 31, three very full weeks after the B sample test result was announced. Without the data contained in the LDP, there was little he could say in his defense.

The LDP is described in the WADA International Standard for Labortories (ISL) as the total of all the information the Lab needs to provide to the results management process. While voluminous, if there is any data missing you are unlikely to get any more.
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It's big, 170 Mb or so anyway you get it. It comes from FloydLandis.com as a zip file with 11 PDFs of 370 scanned pages. At the archive.org copy, we've unzipped them (here if that doesn't work) and also put them into one big PDF which lets you print and paw through in one AcroRead session.

We have also broken it into individual pages (here if that doesn't work), with sensible names, and I recommend using links to these individual pages in discussions.

Here are some things to know right away:

1. It's really two LDPs, one for the A sample and one for the B. The split is at page USADA_225
   
2. There are two tables of contents, one for the A and one for the B. Both have wrong page numbers, but show the organization of the pages that follow
   
3. There is a lot of boilerplate, some of which is reproduced in both reports.
4. In some tests, many sub-samples/vials/aliquots are tested, and some of them are reference calibration standards. It's going to take some staring to figure them out.

Some interesting pages are identified in the table below.

Whiteout page	USADA_024
Transport page w/wrong Sample number	USADA_009
A sample screening result for T/E	USADA_051: 1.0 USADA_054: 4.9 USADA_057: 5.1 USADA_060: 1.1
A sample confirmation result for T/E	USADA_092: 11.4 USADA_101: 14.8(!?)
A sample CIR result for exogenous	USADA_175
A sample certified results	USADA_176 USADA_177
Sample ID w/Cortisone TUE note	USADA_228
B sample confirmation result for T/E	USADA_278: 10.9 USADA_279: 11.0 USADA_281: 11.1 USADA_283: 3.6 USADA_288: 14.3(?)
B sample CIR result for exogenous	USADA_352
B sample certified results	USADA_365 USADA_366
Statement by Landis' Expert, de Boer	USADA_368 USADA_369
Questions by deBoer (unanswered)	USADA_370

This is where the "ferret" pages came from. The reconstructions are much easier to read.

Ferret page	Original	Reconstructed English	Reconconstructed French
1	USADA_006	page 1	page 1
2	USADA_007	page 2	page 2
3	USADA_008	page3	page 3

Comments to this post are a good place for discussion about the structure of the pack and identification of parts. This will let me update the index tables especially if it helps with the index tables.

Thanks!
TBV

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