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Reports Squalor in the Laboratories
An Audit of Animal Welfare Act Compliance by U.S.
Research Facilities; With Detailed Examinations of Fifteen Nationally
Known Labs
By Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., Executive Director,
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Johns Hopkins University
USDA reports from inspections on 6/24/02 reveal
violations in many areas. The IACUC is cited for inadequate justification
of the use of baboons and squirrel monkeys in drug studies. The university
is also cited for inadequate Veterinary Care. Expired drugs were in use
and a dog, which was refusing food during experimentation, had not been
noted as abnormal. The facility was also cited for using dogs in
potentially painful or stressful experimentation without reporting these
projects (congestive heart failure in dogs) as potentially painful or
stressful.
Environmental Enhancement is also an issue at this
facility because "Over half of the nonhuman primates are singly housed. .
. . A baboon was housed alone with no other nonhuman primate contact and
minimum enrichment at Asthma and Allergy. The baboon was acting
distressed, pacing in circles."
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