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Charles River Laboratories, Inc. is an American corporation specializing in a variety of pre-clinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries.〔Christensen, Carl Roland. ''Business Policy: Text and Cases''. R.D. Irwin, 1982, p. 54.〕 It also supplies assorted biomedical products and research and development outsourcing services for use in the pharmaceutical industry. According to its website, its customers include every major pharmaceutical and biotechnology company in the world, major academic institutions and government research centers.〔("Charles River At A Glance" ), Charles River Laboratories.〕 The company was initiated during 1947. The chief executive officer is James C. Foster. With more than 7,500 employees, the company has facilities in Canada, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, China, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. ==Controversy== The company has been the target of animal rights activists in the UK and US. It owned Shamrock Farm in England's West Sussex which closed during 2000 following a 15-month campaign by animal rights activists. Between 2006-2008, Charles River was cited for 42 violations of the US Animal Welfare Act. In 2007, two monkeys at the company’s Sparks, Nevada facility had their fingers amputated after they were caught in the wiring of their cages while being moved, and a third monkey suffered a cut to their tail. In 2008, 32 Cynomolgus primates, also known as crab-eating Macaques, died of overheating at the company's Sparks, Nevada laboratory after a climate system failure. PETA filed a complaint with the USDA over the incident. The following year, a monkey died at the same facility after being left in their cage as it was run through a scalding hot cage washer. For both incidents, Charles River was fined $14,000. The company subsequently closed their Sparks facility. In 2008, the ''Associated Press'' reported, "A former scientist at an animal testing facility in Nevada where 32 research monkeys were accidentally killed in May claims in a federal lawsuit he was fired partly because he opposed 'cruel and inhumane mistreatment' of animals there."〔(Fired Researcher Claims Animal Cruelty at NV Lab ), Associated Press, September 9, 2008.〕 Between 2009-2011, four rabbits, four primates and a dog died through actions critics say showed negligence on the part of Charles River. PETA owns $2,000 worth of shares in the company, enough to introduce formal resolutions regarding animal care during the company’s annual shareholder meeting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles River Laboratories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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