EMAIL BLOCKS & FULL CONTACT INFORMATION
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1. Some emails below -- supplied by SHAC-UK -- will inevitably bounce. WHY? They are obtained from websites that haven't been updated. They are disabled or blocked in response to SHAC-UK's ongoing campaign.
2. To BLIND-COPY a block of emails, so recipients don't see huge email list:
• COPY/PASTE a block of emails into the Bcc: line of your email.
• TYPE YOUR OWN EMAIL in the To: line.
• PERSONALIZE, SIGN, COPY/PASTE letter portion of this alert into the body of your email.
• HIT SEND.
• REPEAT FOR EACH EMAIL BLOCK.
Email programs differ in terms of how many email addresses you can send at one time.
3. TIPS ON SENDING BLOCKS OF EMAILS [from SHAC-UK]:
Guide for the three most commonly used email programs.
Yahoo & Outlook: Simply paste emails into the - Bcc - text box, as long as they are separated by a comma (,) and do not exceed 50.
Hotmail: Click on the - To - or - Bcc - to bring up a dialogue box. Paste in your email addresses, as long as they are separated by a comma (,) and do not exceed 50 in number.
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FULL CONTACT INFORMATION
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http://www.avecia.com/
UK: http://www.avecia.com/group/contact_us/uk.htm
US: http://www.avecia.com/group/contact_us/north_america.htm
Avecia UK (Ink Jet Printing Materials)
PO Box 42, Hexagon House
Blackley, Manchester M9 8ZS
ph: + 44 (0)161 721 2446; fax: + 44 (0)161 721 5202
Avecia UK (Biotechnology)
PO Box 2, Belasis Avenue
Billingham, Cleveland TS23 1YN
ph: + 44 (0)1642 363511; fax: + 44 (0)1642 364463
[USA] Avecia Biotechnology Inc.
(DNA Medicines)
155 Fortune Boulevard; Milford MA
ph: + 1 508 482 7500; fax: + 1 508 482 7510
Pam Cumberbirch, Biologics – Europe: ; ph: + 44 (0)161 721 1553
Koen Hellendoorn, Biologics – Europe: ; ph: + 44 (0)1642 363511
Jon Williams, Biologics – Europe: ; ph: + 44 (0)207 582 5017
Shelly Adams, Director - North American Sales:
ph: + 1 858 759 6636; fax: + 1 858 759 4136
Edwin Beale, Biotechnology - East Coast:
ph: + 1 302 477 8102; fax: +1 302 477 8275
Tammy Cooper, Biotechnology - West Coast:
ph: + 1 619 269 9270; mobile: +1 858 344 9859; fax: + 1 619 269 9280
BUSINESS CONTACTS:
Neil Cullum: ; ph: + 44 (0)161 721 1288; fax: + 44 (0)161 721 5810
Claire Holt: ; ph: +44 (0)161 721 1132; fax: +44 (0)161 721 5810
Dear Sir/Madam:
I write to express my concern for the welfare of animals used during the development and manufacturing of Avecia’s biotechnology based medicines. I am dismayed to learn about your company’s affiliation with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract research laboratory cited for multiple violations of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act.
Huntingdon's record includes the arrest of workers on animal cruelty charges, 520 breaches of Good Laboratory Practice in England, and a $50,000 payoff to the U.S. Agriculture Department for falsified records and animal welfare infractions.
I respectfully ask you to join the long list of suppliers, financiers and customers* who made the morally responsible decision to sever ties with HLS. If Avecia Biotechnology no longer deals with HLS in any capacity, please let me know so I may share the good news with others.
I was shocked to read eyewitness accounts about HLS technicians who nonchalantly kill dogs by flooding their lungs with toxic materials meant for the animals' stomachs. In one investigative video clip, a technician punches a 4-month-old beagle in the face. During a supposedly post-mortem dissection, another tech slices into the chest of a convulsing monkey.
A former HLS employee who worked in the East Millstone lab stated: "I saw monkeys hunched over in pain after abdominal surgery. One of the employees doing the surgery told me that she had 'no idea what [she] was doing.'"
As recently as 2003, Huntingdon gassed beagles and mice to reanalyze materials HCFC 22 and HCFC 32 on behalf of two Japanese clients. HCFC 22, already prohibited in many countries, will soon be phased out worldwide. Still, HLS forced healthy animals to endure invasive testing for five
months, before killing them all.
I am haunted by the cruelty exposed in five HLS investigations. That is why I have taken the time to highlight these disturbing images and appeal to your sense of ethics.
I also encourage Avecia to replace animal experimentation with progressive non-animal modalities that have proven more relevant to humans. “Currently nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on animal studies," says Mike Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Many facilities worldwide now conduct human-focused research such as in vitro analysis, cell imaging, epidemiology, computer simulators, videos and mathematical modeling, genetic and protein analysis, human brain mapping technologies, autopsy/biopsy studies, MRI imaging, etc.
While you may not agree that non-animal modes should replace misleading animal tests, why risk credibility by association with HLS? I urge you to issue a straightforward statement that conveys your refusal to interact with Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Thank-you,
*Companies that dropped Huntingdon Life Sciences in 2005 alone:
Nucryst Pharmaceutical, Johnson and Johnson, Santen, Accent Hansen, Algar, Signcraft, Allport, Archer, Ashtead Plant Hire, Bedfordshire Growers, Brett Martin, British Gypsum, BSS, Bulk Gas, Cambridge Courier Services, Cambridge Plant and Demolition Ltd, Caterfix, CCS Landhaul, Chiltern, Chubb Concrete Company, Cross Country Carriers, Danish Bakery, Data Sciences, David Ball Group, Den Caney Coaches, DG Freight, Dickerson Group, Durapipe, DW Clark, ECR, First Choice Coffee, First Flight Forwarders, Flex-Able Travel, Front Row, Gemmix Ltd, Hamilton Rentals, Hankyu, Hartrodt, Healthcare Logistics, Heathrow Import Clearance, Hewden, Hexagon, House of James, HQ Forklifts, HSS, Huntingdon Plant Hire, Initial City Link, Innaphase, Ipswich Plastics,
J Watson Scaffolding, James Latham, JCH Laundry, Johnstones Leyland Decorating Centre, Knights of Old, Labtronics, Laminar Medica, Leapfrog Day Nurseries, Lynn Star, Matthews Transport, MC Freeze, Medifacts, MFI, Network Services, Night Freight, North Yorkshire Timber, Pall-Ex, Planet Same Day Couriers, Plastic Pipe Supplies, Prestons of Potto, Ray Harvey Fish
Merchants, RJ Warren, RJJ Worldwide, Scarlet Couriers, SDV, Seko, Simonds Coach and Travel, Smiths Medical, Souters Transport, Speedy Hire, Stan Robinson, Star Transport, Suttons, Trio, United Pallet Network, Vet Diagnostics, Vindon, Whittle Painting, Windsor Engineering, World Precision Instruments, Douglas Brass, Sanderson Transport, D & G Noble, Awad, Cortina,
Domestic Securities, Greenville Capital, Management, Inc., Royce, Thomson, UBS Global Capital Markets, Vertical, Washington Mutual