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SAEN: After watchdog complaints, University of Wisconsin cited by regulators for monkey death/injuries
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Contact:
Dr. Robert Gibbens
Director, Western Region, USDA
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Please levy the MAXIMUM 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: After watchdog complaints, University of Wisconsin cited by regulators for monkey death/injuries
From WISPolitics.com, August 10, 2022
MADISON, WI The University of Wisconsin has been cited by federal
regulators in the death of one monkey, injury of another and multiple
botched procedures following two complaints filed by a national research
watchdog.
SAEN, a non-profit Ohio-based non-governmental watchdog that monitors U.S.
research facilities for illegal behavior and animal abuse, has focused on
the multiple serious violations of federal law by University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
In a new federal complaint filed with Dr. Robert Gibbens, Director, Animal
Welfare Operations, USDA/APHIS/AC, SAEN is urging the maximum penalty
against the UW for breaking federal law.
This latest communication with the USDA references both earlier complaints
which led to the more serious violations against the UW, SAEN explained.
In April 5 inspection, whose release was delayed for three months (likely by
a university appeal of the inspection), the University of Wisconsin is cited
for five separate incidents under regulations for proper animal handling.
One of the incidents involved an injury to a monkey. This is precisely the
same code section for the majority of the violations that were the basis of
the federal fine paid by the university in 2020, as well as an earlier fine
in 2014.
SAEN said the April 5 USDA inspection also cited the university for a
CRITICAL violation of housing/facilities regulations for a defective
enrichment device that led to the death of a monkey.
Both the monkey death, which is the basis of the CRITICAL housing/facilities
violation, as well as the animal handling violation involving the monkey
injury, were the subjects of earlier complaints filed by SAEN.
I must emphasize this documents the University of Wisconsin, Madison has
been violating precisely the same regulation dating back to at least 2012, a
full decade. Steps previously taken by the USDA/APHIS/AC to end the
violations have been ineffective, said Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T.,
co-founder, SAEN, adding, The maximum penalty MUST be invoked $10,000 per
infraction/per animal.
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