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The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) went undercover
inside Covance, Inc., a contract testing laboratory in Munster,
Germany, with locations worldwide. Covance is using its muscle and
money to stifle the BUAV from showing the public what it found in
the primate-poisoning laboratory and has forced the organization
to remove photos and video
footage of the terrified animals from its Web site.
Covance, Inc., is headquartered in the U.S. at 210 Carnegie Ctr., Princeton, New Jersey. Its Web site, says that it has locations in 18 countries and that it services 50 global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. In the U.S., Covance has locations in Wisconsin, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
You can easily see what the company thinks of the animals it breeds, sells, poisons, and chops up by clicking here, where, under the heading "What We Offer for Research Products," you will see that dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, nonhuman primates, and pigs are listed as if they were paper clips, copying machines, or Bunsen burners. Covance has even obtained a trademark for its "Mini-Mongrel™."
Covance will conduct any of the typical battery of painful toxicity tests for companies that make chemicals, drugs, pesticides, cosmetics, or household goods. It offers acute oral, dermal and inhalation toxicity; primary dermal and eye irritation; dermal sensitization; genotoxicity; neurotoxicity; subchronic oral, dermal, and inhalation toxicity; reproductive toxicity, including multigeneration and teratogenicity studies; lifespan toxicity and oncogenicity (i.e., cancer studies), and histopathology.
Similar tests are carried out at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract testing laboratory investigated by PETA in 1996 that also has facilities in New Jersey and Europe. And, just as Covance has done with BUAV, HLS used its money and influence to keep PETA from showing the videotape that documented the suffering endured by dogs and primates. Procter & Gamble even testified against PETA in the court case that ensued. But, just as PETA won the fight against HLS, we feel certain that our esteemed colleagues at BUAV will win against Covance!
Please read the BUAV investigator's diary of what he found at Covance. Cowardly Covance has threatened BUAV's Internet provider with legal action if the videotape and photos of the primates appear on the Web site. Please use your voice to make complaints to those authorities and contacts given on the BUAV Web site.
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