Bloodied Beagles, Sick Monkeys Found at U.S.-Sanctioned Lab in India: PETA Wants It Shut Down

For Immediate Release:
June 10, 2025

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Dogs were left lying in pools of blood at a huge contract laboratory in India that breeds and tests drugs, pesticides, and medical devices on animals for the highest bidder—sometimes for U.S. companies—and through a complaint lodged today, PETA demands the National Institutes of Health (NIH) investigate immediately.

The laboratory is Palamur Biosciences, which touts itself as “one of the largest preclinical service providers” in India, and the complaint is based on PETA India’s first-of-its-kind whistleblower exposé.

The horror PETA India documents is legion: dogs suffering from untreated wounds, newborn minipigs killed without anesthesia, and monkeys carrying zoonotic viruses abruptly killed.

Photos from PETA India’s exposé are available here. Video footage is available here. PETA’s Action Alert is here.

PETA demands NIH respond immediately because the U.S. government has given Palamur approval to conduct such experiments, so the laboratory is therefore required to comply with U.S. standards.

“Leaving beagles suffering in pools of blood, among other horrors, is what NIH has approved at one of India’s largest contract labs,” says Dr. Alka Chandna, PETA’s Vice President of Laboratory Oversight & Special Cases. “PETA India’s groundbreaking exposé makes it clear that regulators in India should immediately shut down Palamur Biosciences, NIH should nix its permit for this hellhole, and Congress should approve the CARGO Act to prevent NIH from funding foreign animal labs.”

As a contract laboratory, Palamur makes money poisoning beagles and other animals for the highest bidder. Among the reported horrors uncovered by PETA India:

• Photographs and video footage show dogs lying in pools of blood. 
• Dogs in some experiments suffered “like hell” with untreated and open, painful wounds, a whistleblower said.
• Dogs in other experiments suffered from ulcers in their mouths or intestines.
• Some staff kicked animals or closed cage doors on their legs, causing fractures, according to a whistleblower.
• Nearly 1,500 dogs were kept in a space designed for only 800, forcing three to four dogs into cages meant for just two, leading to fights and serious injuries.
• Palamur obtained wild-caught rhesus macaques from a supplier. Some tested positive for dangerous pathogens, likely monkeypox. The company kept the matter quiet despite the health risks and killed the monkeys.
• A minipig got pregnant, and because Palamur did not have a license to breed the animals, staff killed all the piglets without sedation by a painful injection straight into the heart.

PETA India has submitted complaints to regulators in India, urging immediate termination of the contract laboratory’s registration to use animals in testing, prosecution under applicable rules, and rehabilitation of surviving animals.

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