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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS LEADING TO MULTIPLE COUNTS OF CRIMINAL ANIMAL
CRUELTY FILED AGAINST THE NIH'S "ALAMOGORDO PRIMATE FACILITY"
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Prepared by In Defense of Animals /
September 7th, 2004
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July 1999 - The NIH begins providing the Foundation with public funds in order to avert bankruptcy. These illegal "supplemental awards" will eventually total over $2 million. The NIH continues to fund the lab despite continuing violations of federal animal welfare laws.
July-August 1999 - The Food and Drug Administration inspects The Coulston Foundation, audits three privately-funded experiments on chimpanzees, and finds over 270 violations of the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) regulations, which exist to ensure data integrity and human safety. The FDA findings corroborate information provided by IDA's network of whistleblowers.
August 24, 1999 - The USDA and the Foundation settle all outstanding administrative charges
(USDA Settlement). The Coulston Foundation agrees to halve its population by promising to give up 300 chimpanzees by 2002. The settlement also mandates extraordinary external oversight measures by the NIH - which is supposed to ensure Coulston's compliance with federal animal welfare laws and the GLP regulations - as well as review by an independent "External Review Team."
October 1999 - The Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care wins its lawsuit with the Air Force. In the settlement, the Air Force and The Coulston Foundation agree to transfer 21 former Air Force chimpanzees to the state-of-the-art Florida sanctuary.
November 1999 - Donna, a 36-year-old former Air Force chimpanzee, dies gruesomely at The Coulston Foundation from a massive infection after carrying a dead fetus inside her for weeks. Veterinarians who belatedly performed a C-section on Donna removed one liter of pus from her abdomen and observed the partially decomposed fetus's skull through the ruptured wall of her uterus. The NIH continues to fund the lab with millions of tax dollars.
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