Harlan Sprague Dawley Inc. is a supplier of animals and other services to laboratories
for the purpose of animal testing.
It provides pre-clinical research tools and services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
agrochemicals, industrial chemical, and food industries.Harlan offers products and services
for the discovery and safety of new medicines and compounds, including research models and
services, health monitoring reports, genetic monitoring reports, Teklad lab animal diets,
bedding and enrichment products, surgical services, genetic testing services, research
model support services, biological products and antibody production services, flexible
film isolators, transportation services, and stock and strain elimination.
It also provides contract research services, which comprise toxicology, environmental science,
and regulatory services.In 2013, Harlan expanded the availability of its contract breeding
services from the United Kingdom and Southern Europe into Northern Europe through a partnership
with BioXpert, an animal science and services company.
== Harlan UK == Harlan UK Ltd. is the British arm of Harlan
Sprague Dawley Inc.
It has an annual turnover of £6.6 million, according to the British Union for the Abolition
of Vivisection (BUAV).
The company supplies marmosets, beagles, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, gerbils,
and hamsters, as well as hybrid, mutant, and transgenic animals.
Its brochure says it supplies more stocks and strains of lab animals than any other
commercial supplier in the world.
BUAV writes that the company breeds around 450 baby marmoset monkeys a year, selling
them to laboratories around Europe for £1,000 each.
== Animal welfare == Harlan Laboratories says it is "dedicated
to the humane care and use of research animals".
The IACUC and the company's veterinary staff manage policies and procedures to ensure that
all animal use is performed in accordance with government and industry standards.In
the UK, The Sunday Times reported that beagles kept on a large farm were permitted only 20
minutes out of their cages per week because the company, "is exempt from the main animal
welfare legislation which requires dogs to have daily exercise", and instead "adheres
to a code of practice enforced by the Home Office".
An ex-employee of Harlan told the Times that he was shown how to separate fighting dogs
by "kicking and punching them".
The company said they investigated the charge and found that "there were some inconsistencies
between sites in the way the dogs were being separated during fighting".Harlan has been
a target of animal rights activists, and the group Animal Liberation Front has raided Harlan
Interfauna removing animals and documents.
For one raid in 1990, during which 82 beagles and 26 rabbits were taken, John Curtin and
Danny Attwood were convicted and sentenced to nine months and 18 months in prison respectively.In
2006, over 1,000 animals, including 25 macaque monkeys were removed from Harlan in Correzzana,
Italy, with computers and equipment smashed, by the Animal Liberation Front in Italy.
== See also == Laboratory animal suppliers in the United
Kingdom Model organism
== Notes ==
== External links ==
Official website