Stop Covance

Covance, an animal testing laboratory, plans to build a 282,000-square-foot facility in Chandler, Arizona. Experimentation facilities like the one that Covance intends for Chandler may affect the entire community. Covance brings human health and animal cruelty concerns, and could affect property values in Chandler.Covance is a contract lab—paid to test cosmetic ingredients, additives, pesticides, and drugs on monkeys, dogs, rabbits, cats, rats, and mice.Covance was recently investigated and fined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Covance imported more than 12,000 primates for experimentation in 2005. Monkeys can carry an array of diseases dangerous to humans such as hepatitis B, shigella, tuberculosis, and Ebola.A Covance facility in Virginia, operating under the company’s prior name Hazleton, was closed after disclosing that Ebola-infected monkeys had entered the facility. Hazardous material experts had to seal off the premises and kill all the animals present. Documents uncovered by Citizens Against Covance reveal a 2006 outbreak of tuberculosis at Covance’s Madison facility, a fact which Covance has not shared with Chandler residents, or even with their local community.Please explore the links in our Blogs section, and find out how you can educate yourself on the Covance Controversy in Chandler, AZ. Knowledge is power!***Update 1-1-08*** This Myspace profile is monitored only occasionally, for more up-to-date information please visit www.stopcovance.com or if you have an urgent question, drop us an email there. Thanks team!