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Biocair / U.K. Office
The Business Centre, Church End
Cambridge, CB1 3LB
ph: 01223 245223, 01223 703306; fax: 01223 245211
Pharmacair / Biocair U.S. Parent Company
56 Roland Street, Suite 102-P; Boston, MA 02129 USA
ph: (+1) 617 623 0544; fax: (+1) 617 623 0837
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am alarmed to learn about Biocair’s continuing function as a pharmaceutical courier for Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). 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 numerous Animal Welfare Act infractions.
If Biocair, and its parent company Pharmacair, no longer deal with HLS in any capacity, please let me know so I may share the good news with others who oppose the lab’s brutal practices.
If, however, Biocair maintains a working relationship with HLS, I respectfully ask you to join the long list of suppliers, financiers and customers* that chose to sever ties and avoid the lab’s tendency to draw complaints from around the world.
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 particularly disturbing video segment, a technician is observed punching a frightened beagle puppy in the face.
During a supposedly post-mortem dissection, another tech is seen slicing into the chest of a convulsing monkey.
One former employee claims she regularly heard alert dogs cry out in pain during fatal procedures. She saw "a beagle on the necropsy table. The experimenter put a knife into the animal and he threw his head back and howled and actually lurched himself down the table... His last howls were
when the leg muscles were severed."
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 point out these disturbing images. While many facilities now fulfill research criterion with sophisticated non-animal methods, HLS still overdoses animals with toxic substances. Unskilled technicians still perform crude surgeries and endless blood draws. No subject leaves HLS alive.
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