Covance Boils Rabbit Alive and causes Traumatic Injuries to Primates; Watchdog Group calls for Multiple Federal Fines
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From Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!
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| Please contact Elizabeth Goldentyre to
demand that Covance Research receive the largest fine possible under the
Animal Welfare Act for the negligence which boiled a rabbit alive. Dr. Elizabeth Goldentyer USDA/APHIS/AC 920 Main Campus Drive, Suite 2000 Raleigh, NC 27606 [email protected] AND Please contact Dr. Gibbens and demand that he take immediate action against the Covance Research Products facility of Alice Texas for the deaths and traumatic injuries of multiple primates. Dr. Robert Gibbens |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, November 28, 2011
Contact: Michael Budkie, SAEN www.saenonline.org, [email protected], (513)
575-5517
Attn: Assignment Desk
Covance Boils Rabbit Alive and causes Traumatic Injuries to Primates; Watchdog Group calls for Multiple Federal Fines
PRINCETON/TRENTON, NJ – Covance Research Products, headquartered in Princeton (NJ),
is the target of multiple Official Complaints filed with the USDA by Research Watchdog Group SAEN, (Stop Animal Exploitation Now).
The complaints allege that multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act in
Covance facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas led directly to the deaths and
injuries of primates and rabbits.
Recently obtained federal reports reveal that the Covance facility in Denver
(PA) boiled a rabbit alive in a cage washer. According to a USDA
inspection report dated 7-21-11 a rabbit was found dead inside the cage washing
apparatus, which sterilizes cages with hot water.
Records obtained from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), reveal
that several primates shipped by Covance had to be euthanized upon arrival or
shortly thereafter, while others had a history of traumatic injuries.
The fate of Primate RQ5977 was particularly grisly. Apparently RQ5977
had a history of SIB (self-injurious behavior) prior to shipping. The
stress of shipping drastically increased this behavior such that the primate was
euthanized the day she arrived at UCSF. Other Covance primates shipped to
UCSF are missing ears, fingers, toes, etc. The USDA has also recently
cited this facility for primate injuries due to frostbite.
“Horrible acts of negligence like this, which literally boiled a rabbit alive, must be severely penalized,” said Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., Executive Director, SAEN.
“Carelessly causing an already disturbed monkey to become
even more self-destructive is beyond callousness. If a private individual
did this they would go to jail.”
SAEN has contacted both the Eastern and Western Regional Offices of
USDA/APHIS/AC to demand that fines be issued against both Covance facilities.
The USDA inspection reports and primate records are available upon request
from SAEN.
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