The Hong Kong Jockey Club has on-site at the Sha Tin Racecourse a Racing Laboratory that is a world class drug-testing facility, internationally accredited for testing equine, canine and human bodily fluids for the presence of prohibited substances. Set up and manpower • Occupies about 1,700 sq m floor area. • Has 43 staff, 30 of whom hold Bachelor or higher qualifications, including 7 doctorates and 7 master degrees. • Among the 10 chemists, 4 are Fellows and another 5 are Professional Members of the International Association of Official Racing Chemists (AORC). The AORC has about 50 Fellows worldwide. • The lab is equipped with about US$8 million worth of major facilities, including 24 state-of-the-art mass spectrometers that generate ''chemical fingerprints'' for drug identification. • It conducts checks on over 18,000 official samples a year.   - All declared starters are pre-race tested on raceday. - Some 20-25% of runners of each race are selected by the Racing Stewards for post-race tests, including first and second place-getters and favourites. - Race horses are also tested at other times, such as during training, upon stable transfer and on return from spelling. - In addition, many official samples are submitted from authorities in Mainland China as well as numerous overseas regulatory authorities. Worldwide accreditation • Since 2001, the Racing Laboratory has been appointed by the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) as its sole Reference Laboratory in Asia. The other FEI Reference Laboratories are currently New York, Paris and Sydney. • It is the only lab approved by the FEI to conduct testing for international or other high-level equestrian events held in Asia under FEI rules. • In the past 7 years, it has performed ''referee'' analyses on over 500 ''B'' samples at the request of 20 different overseas authorities, including the FEI. • It tested all equestrian event samples from the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games in respectively Busan, Korea and Doha, Qatar. • Three of the four positive cases from the equestrian events in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games had their ''B'' samples confirmed in Hong Kong. • The Racing Laboratory is a popular establishment for racing chemists from overseas jurisdictions to consult, visit or use to further their training. • It is among the world leaders in research on equine drug testing, and has produced over 40 papers within the past 7 years. • It has been accredited to the ISO/IEC Guide 25 international standard since 1992. • Since 1993, it has been maintaining and updating the mass spectral (''chemical fingerprint'') databases of prohibited substances for the AORC and its members worldwide. • Since 2001, it has been accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025: 1999 international standard. Currently there are about 20 official racing laboratories around the world accredited to this standard. Since 2005, the Racing Laboratory has been accredited to the new ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 international standard, which incorporates all relevant requirements of ISO 9001: 2000. It is believed to be the first among racing laboratories in the world to attain accreditation to respectively the ISO/IEC 17025: 1999 and ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 standards.