Within 6 months, the animal testing labs lost a mutant rabbit, poisoned nearly 11,500 zebra fish with bleach, caused 53 mice to die of thirst and gave an unknown number of mice terminal gastrointestinal cancer.
GUS BURNS: ‘Within six months, University of Michigan animal testing laboratories accidentally lost a mutant rabbit, poisoned nearly 11,500 zebra fish with bleach, caused 53 mice to die of thirst and gave an unknown number of mice terminal gastrointestinal cancer, federal records show… Four legally required letters detailing the research animal losses, which occurred between March and September of last year, were mailed to the federal Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare… Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), an animal advocacy group, obtained the correspondence through records requests sent to the federal Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare and is now calling on UM President Mark Schlissel to do an independent investigation.
“These incidents of negligence indicate serious systemic issues within the University of Michigan animal experimentation system,” says a March 20 letter sent to the president and Board of Regents by Stop Animal Exploitation Now Director Michael Budkie… Budkie said all registered laboratories that receive funding from the federal government are required to self report certain incidents that result in the death or loss of lab animals. Stop Animal Exploitation Now regularly analyzes those reports. “We are not aware of any other institution that has had this excessive a number of deaths in such a short time,” Budkie told MLive”.’ SOURCE…
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