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National Research Watchdog Charges UC Davis Laboratory Killed 2 Monkeys, Broke Federal Law
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Dr. Roxanne Mullaney, 9/25/23Deputy Administrator, Animal Care, USDA/APHIS/AC
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Please launch a full investigation of the UC Davis incidents which killed two primates. This horrific deaths must not go unpunished!
National Research Watchdog Charges UC Davis Laboratory Killed 2 Monkeys, Broke Federal Law
From Davis Vanguard, November 17, 2023
DAVIS, CA – A national research watchdog disclosed in a statement this
week the University of California, Davis, has been assessed “critical”
violations for breaking federal law from regulators because of the deaths of
at least two primates in UCD research programs.
SAEN—Stop Animal Exploitation Now—said in the statement university
researchers are “bungling,” noting its complaint to the U.S. Dept of
Agriculture, which oversees animal use, led to the government’s declaration
that UCD broke the law.
“The USDA, the enforcers of the Animal Welfare Act, have investigated our
complaint and issued a violation for the cooking death of the monkey. Not
only did they issue a violation, they issued a critical violation, which is
much more serious. Also, they issued an additional violation for a separate
animal death,” said Michael Budkie, executive director of SAEN, a nonprofit
based in Ohio that investigates activities in U.S. research laboratories
“The inspection (in October) which UC Davis failed is the first step towards
an enforcement action by the USDA, essentially the beginning of a potential
prosecution. This also means that the complaint which we filed was taken
seriously, and has had an impact—it caused the inspection, and the critical
violation to be issued,” added Budkie.
Budkie, in SAEN’s statement, said “the bungling laboratory admitted cooking
a monkey to death in 130-degree heat,” quoting a “UCD internal report” that
SAEN claims said a “monkey was left in a transport van for more than an hour
with a forced air heater blowing 130-degree air directly on the confined
animal. The monkey was later found comatose and eventually euthanized.
Budkie added, “UCD negligence has caused unnecessary pain and death for
two more primates. These serious violations should draw a major federal
fine.”
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