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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS LEADING TO MULTIPLE COUNTS OF CRIMINAL ANIMAL
CRUELTY FILED AGAINST THE NIH'S "ALAMOGORDO PRIMATE FACILITY"
OPERATOR
Prepared by In Defense of Animals /
September 7th, 2004
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September 25, 2001 - Charles River announces that it has been awarded a
five-year, $24 million contract to manage part of the National Cancer
Institute's Frederick Cancer Research Center. If NCI exercises a two-year
option, the contract will be worth $35 million in public funds over seven
years.
October 2001 - The FDA issues an unprecedented second Warning Letter against The Coulston Foundation, and states that because of the lab's record of violations, the agency is considering "disqualification" of the facility. Disqualification would prohibit The Coulston Foundation from performing any GLP studies. Because Coulston no longer receives federal funding, an inability to perform FDA-approved GLP studies - the lifeblood of any toxicology facility - would deal a death blow to the lab.
December 2001 - First National Bank of Alamogordo, the main creditor of The Coulston Foundation, files a foreclosure lawsuit against the lab.
January 2, 2002 - During its first "courtesy inspection" of the APF (Inspection
- Jan 02), the USDA - which has no jurisdiction over the APF because it is defined as a "federal research facility" - finds no violations, despite the recent lack of euthanasia drugs.
Sometime in 2002 - The Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) confers full AAALAC accreditation upon the APF
(AALAC). Research facilities often point to AAALAC accreditation as proof of compliance with the highest standards of animal care.
September 16, 2002 - The Coulston Foundation folds, unable to recover from the loss of federal
funding and its private client base. The Florida-based Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care, with multi-million dollar support from the Arcus Foundation, takes over the facility and permanently retires 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys formerly kept at the Coulston lab.
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