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SAEN: Watchdog files federal complaint for abuse after University of Wisconsin admits breaking law after negligence kills infant monkey, injures adult
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FINE against University of Wisconsin, Madison, for their blatant disregard
of the Animal Welfare Act when their negligence caused the death of an
infant monkey and an injury to an adult. Their behavior should NOT be
tolerated and MUST be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
SAEN: Watchdog files federal complaint for abuse after University of Wisconsin admits breaking law after negligence kills infant monkey, injures adult
From WisPolitics.com, January 26, 2022
The University of Wisconsin has admitted it continued to break federal
law in 2021, according to reports obtained via FOIA by a national research
watchdog – the reports list one infant animal death and one injury.
The reports filed by the UW admit one infant monkey death due to failure to
return a mother and her offspring to their home enclosure, thereby denying
them access to water, and likely impacting the mother’s ability to nurse her
offspring.
According to the report: “One infant was euthanized later that day due to
poor prognosis for survival.”
In a separate incident an adult monkey was injured because of being returned
to the wrong enclosure, one which allowed monkeys to fight, causing a tongue
injury.
The continuing federal violations have drawn a new federal complaint from
SAEN, a national watchdog nonprofit that monitors U.S. research facilities
for illegalities and animal abuse.
SAEN’s complaint alleges multiple new violations of federal animal handling
standards, and calls for the maximum penalty of $10,000 per infraction, per
animal.
The new animal handling violations come after an Aug. 18, 2021, U.S. Dept.
of Agriculture inspection in which a CRITICAL violation was also issued for
violating animal handling regulations.
That inspection follows a hefty $74,000 federal fine levied against the
University of Wisconsin in 2020, also for racking up numerous federal animal
handling violations. The violations connected to the fine dated all the way
back to 2015.
According to federal reports, the University of Wisconsin has violated
exactly the same single federal regulation virtually continuously for the
last six years.
“The inept staff at the University of Wisconsin can’t even keep the animals
in the correct cages and uninjured long enough to perform the experiments,”
said Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., SAEN co-founder. “How is it that this
facility can’t make the changes necessary to stop violating a single federal
regulation?”
SAEN’s new complaint, which contains all relevant documents is available at:
https://saenonline.org/news-media-news-2022/University-of-Wisconsin-Federal-Complaint-1-24-22.html
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