Sussex firm's link to primate testing
Anon | 21.01.2007 14:57 | Animal Liberation | South Coast
ANIMAL rights campaigners are calling for people to get in touch with a firm involved in facilitating lab testing on monkeys.
Vet Diagnostics of W. Sussex is run by Colin King, the ex-owner of Shamrock Monkey Farm. B&K do not have the capabilities at their site to breed monkeys to sell for research so they have to be imported.
A holding centre in China is responsible for this, from which animals are flown to Paris Airport where B&K workers collect them in specialist vans, bought from Shamrock Farm when they closed.
From France, the monkeys are driven to Dover where it is believed they then go to Porton Down for quarantine. This is where Vet Diagnostics come in. UK law says that before a primate can be sold for testing purposes, it has to have a health report done stating if the animal has any dangerous diseases such as Ebola. Blood samples are taken from these monkeys and sent to Vet Diagnostics where the report is filed.
A limited amount of companies are able to create these reports and because of their expertise and employment of ex-Shamrock workers, VD are one of them.
Please contact the firm and ask that they do not deal with B&K: VET DIAGNOSTICS LTD Victoria House, Henfield Road Small Dole, Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9XE Tel: 01273 494 265 Fax: 01273 495 044
info@vetdiagnostics.co.uk
A holding centre in China is responsible for this, from which animals are flown to Paris Airport where B&K workers collect them in specialist vans, bought from Shamrock Farm when they closed.
From France, the monkeys are driven to Dover where it is believed they then go to Porton Down for quarantine. This is where Vet Diagnostics come in. UK law says that before a primate can be sold for testing purposes, it has to have a health report done stating if the animal has any dangerous diseases such as Ebola. Blood samples are taken from these monkeys and sent to Vet Diagnostics where the report is filed.
A limited amount of companies are able to create these reports and because of their expertise and employment of ex-Shamrock workers, VD are one of them.
Please contact the firm and ask that they do not deal with B&K: VET DIAGNOSTICS LTD Victoria House, Henfield Road Small Dole, Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9XE Tel: 01273 494 265 Fax: 01273 495 044
info@vetdiagnostics.co.uk
Anon