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A Place to Look For Animal Research News

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Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. Tags: animal testing. If you go to the very top, there are tabs for FierceBiotechResearch and other topics. I've never heard of them before.

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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

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was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. Despite this, it looks like this has been no barrier to his company getting federal contracts. If so, what is his role in the company that he founded? Tags: animal experimentation. Worldwide Primates Inc. from the Dept.

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Shelter Strays Used as Lab Animals

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The county has a contract with R&R Research in Howard City to euthanize the county's unwanted animals. In return, the company can use some of the unwanted dogs for animal research. The animal shelter committee voted to end the contract, but it goes before the County commissioners in April.

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

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An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.

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EPA Wants to Rely Less on Animal Testing

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For example, companies may have to pay upwards of a half-million dollars to perform an endocrine disruption screening on individual chemicals, as may be required by the end of the year for chemicals that include food use pesticides, but the new approach may trim the cost to about $20,000. The only way we can study some things is in animals."

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.)