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University of California, Davis CA
Report: Inside the Laboratories of UC Davis: The Truth About Primate Experimentation
By Michael A. Budkie,
A.H.T., Executive Director, SAEN
513-575-5517 saen@saenonline.org University of California, Davis / California Primate Research Center
Background Information
The University of California, Davis/California Primate
Research Center is one of the largest primate research facilities in the
United States. According to the website for the primate center the center houses/experiments on approximately 4000
primates per year.
The report filed with the United States Department of
Agriculture/Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service lists the use of
4661 primates during the 2001 reporting year. Documentation filed with
the National Institutes of Health (funding agency for the primate
center) by the Primate Center indicate total primates passing through
the facility to be roughly 4100 for the 2002 – 2003 reporting year.
During this same reporting year the Primate Center brought $81.1 million
to the University of California through experimentation.
Researchers affiliated with the Primate Center/UC
Davis perform experiments in many areas including virology,
reproduction, neurobiology, drug addiction, etc. It would be beyond the
scope of this report to examine all research at the facility. This
report will examine experimentation in the area of neurobiology.
Reports filed by UC Davis with the USDA for the 2000
and 2001 reporting years list the use of 4987 (2000) and 4661 (2001)
primates in experimentation. For a two year period 9648 primates were
used in experimentation. However, according to UC Davis none of these
animals experienced any pain or distress.
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Rats, mice, birds, amphibians and other animals have
been excluded from coverage by the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore research
facility reports do not include these animals. As a result of this
situation, a blank report, or one with few animals listed, does not mean
that a facility has not performed experiments on non-reportable animals. A
blank form does mean that the facility in question has not used covered
animals (primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, pigs,
sheep, goats, etc.). Rats and mice alone are believed to comprise over 90%
of the animals used in experimentation. Therefore the majority of animals
used at research facilities are not even counted.
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