to help you analyze, answer, and advance. In 2007, the NJ laboratory reported 2,143 "regulated" animals. Supporting your critical research with our inflation reduction model program. Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) was a contract research organisation (CRO) founded in 1951 in Cambridgeshire, England. Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4HS A total of 12,800 animals died at HLS during for this study. Huntingdon Life Sciences Group PLC: How Did It Find Trouble? According to Micheal Budkie, executive director of Animal Exploitation NOW! Cannulock Buttons can help. Other animals never even made it to HLS, suffering painful deaths en route. Huntingdon Life Sciences Eye Research Centre Eye Suffolk IP23 7PX England; Relevant study dates Study initiation Analytical phase commenced . Over 90% of the animals used in experimentation are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the only federal law which over sees animal testing. The documents revealed primates being used in the search for solutions to the chronic global shortage of human transplant organs. HLS provides drug development services for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. [10] The USDA fined the New Jersey facility $50,000 for violating a Federal law that regulates the care and treatment of laboratory animals. Firms hire CROs to conduct toxicity animal testing for agrochemicals, petrochemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals and toxins. PO Box 2360 The Routine Agony of Neglected Animals in Laboratories, https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Huntingdon_Life_Sciences&oldid=713053, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, Julian T. Griffiths - Finance Director & Secretary, Henning Jonassen - Group Director, Necropsy Laboratory, Darioush "Dari" Dadgar - Vice President, Analytical Services. Animals retreated within themselves, lying still in their cages until they were put of their misery. They break down as:[6]. Huntingdon Life Sciences was founded in 1952. In July 1997, after 10 months of campaigning; the kennels closed and 200 beagles were found homes. This page was last edited on 17 July 2017, at 20:16. The trade initially switched to Coventry airport, but the campaigners eventually suceeded in stopping exports. United Kingdom, Princeton Research Centre Woolley Road Also in 1996, Zoe Broughton secretly filmed inside of HLS while working as a laboratory technician. Following campaigns which exposed cruel conditions of monkeys transported on long flights, many airlines and ferry companies refused to transport animals for Shamrock. They weigh less than a kilo and tests can often be carried out by a single handler. "[24], BusinessWire: Life Sciences Research, Inc. In 1996, the group initiated a campaign against Consort kennels, near Hereford. 9 (at the time of study) GSK Vaccines, Parc de la Noire Epine, Rue Fleming 20, 1300, Wavre, Belgium. 'We can dose it orally by mixing substances into its food or with a catheter inserted through the mouth directly into the stomach or intravenously into the leg veins.'. Captions are provided by our contributors. [13], [14], In 1998, almost all of the 2,467 macaques used in British laboratories came through Shamrock Farm. [24] In total, 32 people linked to the group were arrested,[25] and seven leading members of SHAC, including Greg Avery, were found guilty of blackmail. The suggestion was that technicians weren't accurately measuring out the chemicals, thereby affecting the data. [13] This number is broken down by species: Huntingdon is criticised by animal rights and animal welfare groups for using animals in research, for instances of animal abuse and for the wide range of substances it tests on animals, particularly non-medical products.
