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Facts About Covance
- Covance is a contract lab—paid to test cosmetic ingredients,
food additives, pesticides, and drugs on monkeys, dogs, rabbits,
cats, rats, and mice.
- The majority of Chandler residents oppose the proposed Covance
facility, according to a 2006 poll.
- Over 1,300 Chandler residents have signed
statements of opposition against the project.
- Covance is one of the largest breeders of dogs for use in experiments.
- Covance imported more than 12,000 primates for experimentation
in 2005. Monkeys can carry an array of diseases dangerous to humans
such as hepatitis B, shigella, tuberculosis, and Ebola.
Reasons to Be Concerned
- Covance was recently investigated and fined by the United States
Department of Agriculture based on documented allegations of striking,
choking, and tormenting primates at its Virginia facility. Read
about this and other instances of Animal
Cruelty.
- Covance met with Maricopa County Air Quality Department officials on Nov. 8, 2006, to discuss obtaining an incinerator permit. Although the company still refuses to confirm its plans, this meeting indicates a strong likelihood that Covance will construct the first incinerator in Chandler. Incinerators of this type pose multiple public health threats, as detailed in the PCRM Incinerator Report.
- A Covance facility in Virginia, operating under the company’s
prior name, was closed after disclosing that Ebola-infected monkeys
had entered the facility. Hazardous material experts had to seal
off the premises and kill all the animals present. Read about this
and other Biohazards.
- Misleading animal tests have led to a string of public health
disasters. Vioxx, Phenactin, E-Ferol, and Oraflex are just a few
of the drugs that appeared safe based on animal tests but were
pulled from the market for killing or seriously harming thousands
of people. Read about the Misleading
Experiments taking place at Covance facilities.
- Infectious diseases have been discovered in several Covance monkeys after they were released from Covance quarantine facilities. Tuberculosis, Bartonella quintana, and Cryptosporidium were all discovered in monkeys that were deemed healthy by Covance. Read more about this in Dr. Aysha Akhtar’s letter to the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services.
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