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UW spokesman: violations have been remedied
By Joshua Roberts, LaramieBoomerang.com, Monday, September 24, 2012
A University of Wyoming spokesman cited a “communication breakdown”
between researchers and an attending veterinarian in connection to 2010
violations of the Animal Welfare Act that resulted in the school being
fined $8,571.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection
Service fined the university for multiple violations of the Animal
Welfare Act, stemming from an August 2010 inspection.
The infractions related to “denying adequate veterinary care to research
animals within the lab, potentially leading to the death of at least one
animal,” Stop Animal Exploitation NOW, an animal advocacy group,
reported in a news release.
SAEN, according to its website, was founded in 1996 as an agency
designed to “force an end to the abuse of animals in laboratories.”
In the inspection, several goats were deemed to have “very thin body
conditions” with “ribs visible and hip bones protruding,” SAEN reported.
Several animals were also described as having signs of severe
gastrointestinal tract disease.
UW spokesman Chad Baldwin said the communication lapse was remedied. He
described the oversight as an isolated incident.
“We remedied the problem immediately,” he said Friday.
SAEN reported that one of the animals died and a post-mortem examination
revealed the animal had coccidial oocysts, a treatable parasitic
condition “which should not have been fatal.”
“It is clear from the federal report that staff veterinarians for the
University of Wyoming were not involved in treating seriously ill
animals,” SAEN Executive Director Michael Budkie said in a news release.
“This kind of negligence may literally have killed one animal and should
have received a much more substantial fine.
“This violation took the life of an animal that did not have to die.”
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