USA/PCRM: Protect Chandler

Covance, an animal testing laboratory, plans to build a 400,000-square-foot facility in Chandler. Experimentation facilities like the one that Covance intends for Chandler may affect the entire community. There is still time to stop its construction if we act now.

Covance is a contract lab, paid to test cosmetic ingredients, additives, pesticides, and drugs on monkeys, dogs, rabbits, cats, rats, and mice.

Animal Cruelty: Covance was recently investigated and fined by the United States Department of Agriculture based on documented allegations of striking, choking, and tormenting primates at its Virginia facility.

Covance is one of the largest breeders of dogs for use in experiments.

Covance imported more than 12,000 primates for experimentation in 2005. Monkeys can carry an array of diseases dangerous to humans such as hepatitis B, shigella, tuberculosis, and Ebola. Biohazard: A Covance facility in Virginia, operating under the company's prior name, was closed after disclosing that Ebola-infected monkeys had entered the facility. Hazardous material experts had to seal off the premises and kill all the animals present.

Misleading Research: Misleading animal tests have led to a string of public health disasters. Vioxx, Phenactin, E-Ferol, Oraflex, Zomax, Suprol, and Selacryn are just a few of the drugs in recent years that appeared safe based on animal tests but were pulled from the market for killing or seriously harming thousands of people.

Source: Protect Chandler
Author: PCRM

Link: Covance gets new detractor in advocacy group
Link: For further reading
Link: Group says most oppose Covance
Link: What you can do


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