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Oklahoma State University admits to negligence after death of 3 research subjects
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Oklahoma State University admits to negligence after death of 3 research subjects
From Mckenzie Richmond, KTUL.com, January 23, 2023
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — Oklahoma State University is admitting to
negligence after the death of three animals.
Animal rights nonprofit, Stop Animal Exploitation, filed an official
complaint with the U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture against Oklahoma State
University, alleging unqualified personnel and animal handling violations,
both federal crimes.
“They’re negligent with the animals and they aren’t doing their daily cage
checks as well as they should be," Stacey Ellison, SAEN Research Analyst,
said.
In the official complaint, Ellison cited unqualified personnel and animal
handling violations after three voles died from being left without water for
multiple days
“To not have qualified and trained personnel is a violation of the Animal
Welfare Act, the law, that the USDA enforces," Ellison said. "Also the
animals being dehydrated and even having to be euthanized after they were
found to not have water because it was in such poor condition is a violation
under the Animal Handling Act. The law.
Her complaint seeks the maximum penalty against the university of $10,000
per animal/per violation. The complaint cites 6 violations of the Animal
Welfare Act.
If the USDA finds OSU guilty, the university will be fined $60,000.
“I used the internal correspondence between the NIH and OSU as the evidence
for that complaint," Ellison said.
OSU Director of Animal Resources, Dr. Ashely Wathen, originally reported the
voles dead in mid-May of 2022.
Email chains provided by a FOIA request show Wathen sending an email to Dr.
Brent Morse, the director of the division of compliance oversight for the
national institutes of health admitting, “a cage of three prairie voles was
found without a water bottle. Two of the voles were deceased and one
required humane euthanasia due to severe clinical conditions.”
- Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
- Oklahoma State University Center for Health Services, Tulsa, OK
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