Published: April 19, 2011
Watchdog Says UC Davis Broke State, Federal Laws
UC Davis Violated State Public Records Act, Charges Research Watchdog Group, Ask Attorney General to Investigate; Whistleblower Says UCD Also Broke Federal Laws
Embattled University of California at Davis - already charged with spying on students - now is being accused by a national research watchdog of allowing animals to die and covering up details of the incident by illegally "cooking" public records requests, breaking state laws.
Details of the accusations will be provided at a newsconference on Tuesday, April 19 10 a.m. at the Laquinta Inn & Suites (1771 Research Park Drive, Meeting Room) Davis.
SAEN, the watchdog group from Ohio that recently revealed the USDA has found UC Davis guilty of violating the Animal Welfare Act for animal abuse, said it has new information - and it is being supplied by a whistleblower inside UC Davis.
And, SAEN said it appears UC Davis is deleting or otherwise illegally altering records in criminal violation of the California Public Records Act. SAEN said it has asked the State Attorney General to investigate UC Davis for criminal wrongdoing.
"The information provided through federal documents is fundamentally different from that supplied by UC Davis. It appears that the University is not being honest and may have cooked their books, and violated the law," said Michael Budkie, AHT, executive director of SAEN, an Ohio nonprofit group.
In the USDA violation made public earlier - called "heinous" by SAEN - UC Davis staff continued to use monkey "34313" in additional experiments despite more than 10 occurrences of vomiting and 15 incidents of traumatic injuries, most of which were self-inflicted.
SAEN says it has evidence from government records that research is being invalidated and millions of dollars wasted in a "national epidemic of criminal negligence in 19 nationally-known labs," including UC Davis, Harvard, Wake Forest, Brown, Yale, North Carolina State University and University of Louisville, (as well as 11 other public and private labs).
Animals - dogs, cats, primates, rabbits, guinea pigs and hamsters, among others - are being killed through neglect, drug overdoses, botched surgical/experimental procedures, and untreated illnesses, and are criminally allowed to bleed to death, or boiled alive or suffocate.
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