The "Centre International de Toxicologie" is similar to HLS and uses animals in toxicity tests for the pharmaceutical, chemical and agrochemical industries.
We want it to modernize by using modern technology instead of animal testing. The CIT recently expanded their animal facilities.
We participate to the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign for the closing down of the toxicology laboratory HLS. Several undercover investigations prouved that HLS is guilty of animal abuse. On some video footage we can see staff shaking, punching, and shouting at beagles. We ask HLS' main customers to break their contracts: AstraZeneca, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi Aventis.
CAV France participates in global campaigns concerning the air transport of laboratory animals. A website denounces the different compagnies that are involved in this unethical and unscientific trade.
This international campaign asked Nepal to ban the export of primates. The campaign was won by end of 2009.
A breeding center was discovered in Lalitpur and 300 monkeys were waiting to be exported to the USA. The Southwest Foundation ordered a first lot of 25 monkeys that they never got!
