Covance to shutter $150M Chandler testing facility this year
Covance officially opens Chandler lab
Chandler Vice Mayor Bob Caccamo, from left, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Chandler Covance facility General Manager Monique Heiser-Wong, Covance Chief Operations Officer Wendell Barr, Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn and Covance Chief Executive Officer Joe Herring cut the ribbon during an opening ceremony for the drug testing facility in Chandler. March 26, 2009.
Security tight as Covance showcases testing lab
Security tight as Covance showcases testing lab
DPR Construction employee and Covance tour guide Camillo Garcia takes members of the Covance board of directors and management team, as well as Arizona dignitaries, on a tour of the facility still under construction in Chandler Thursday morning.
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Work goes on at the construction site Monday for the future Covance facility in Chandler Airpark, northwest of Queen Creek and Gilbert roads. MICHAEL KASHGARIAN, TRIBUNE
Controversial Covance testing lab moves in
Covance building for update on the company getting ready to move in and begin operations.
Group protests testing facility in Chandler
Protesters rally against Covance in Chandler. April 19, 2009.
Group protests testing facility in Chandler
Landon, a 2-year-old beagle, is filmed by TV crews as members of the Citizens Against Covance protest in Chandler. April 19, 2009.
Covance, Chandler
Drug development services company Covance opened a $150 million testing laboratory in Chandler in early 2009, but announced this week that it’s closing the East Valley facility.
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AZnurse posted at 12:55 pm on Wed, May 9, 2012.
Thanks to Garin Groff and the East Valley Tribune for this article on Covance closing in Chandler. So Covance refuses offers from animal protection groups to retire animals to sanctuaries? It’s an unfortunate, but not unexpected response from this company.
Covance has an abysmal track record in many areas and has repeatedly attempted to paint itself as something it is not. Covance is a private lab that does animal testing for its clients, and is the largest breeder of dogs and largest importer of primates for research in the United States. It is not exclusively a medical research firm, as it often represents. On the contrary, its customers include manufacturers of tobacco, toxic, hazardous household products, and pesticides. In 1998, Covance conducted tobacco-industry sponsored studies concluding that even extreme exposures to secondhand smoke were safe for humans. These results contrasted with the Surgeon General’s reports that secondhand smoke substantially increases the risks for lung cancer and heart disease. And at a tobacco industry conference in 2005, Covance gave a presentation titled "How Can Covance Support R&D Needs of the Tobacco Industry?"
Based upon how Covance moved into Chandler (and moved out almost as quickly) using misleading tactics and false promises, it seems that Covance’s ethics have not evolved much since their tobacco promoting days.
Phil Anthropist posted at 2:04 pm on Wed, May 9, 2012.
Covance just goes through those "spokesperson" people like they go through "research tools", don't they? Wendell, Camilla, Barry, Larry, Moe, Curly, where will it end? There is never a shortage of people who don't know the history of Covance that they can train to memorize a few industry buzz phrases. Where's Boyd Dunn? Greater Phoenix Economic Council? Notice Covance's bedbuddy, the Republic, is ignoring this. And Martin Sepulveda can add this to his resume, right along with Cellphonegate, as he runs for... what's he running for again?
Phil Anthropist posted at 2:52 pm on Wed, May 9, 2012.
We are having a caption contest for the photo above. That's Wendell Barr of Covance with the ginormous scissors and Mayor Boyd Dunn to his left. Come on, let's have your entries, folks!
CMC67 posted at 4:08 pm on Wed, May 9, 2012.
In this day and age, with all of our technology there is NO reason to test anything on animals. This is truly animal abuse at it's worst, not sure how any of these "people" sleep at night, but I guess if they do not have a conscious it's not hard to sleep. These types of groups need to be stopped, these murders need to be stopped! Greed is a terrible thing, they should not try to hide behind anything else... Glad they are leaving Chandler, but outraged these jerks, murderers are allowed to continue to torture and murder helpless, caged animals...! Bloodthirsty predators...Serial killers start by harming animals...that is a fact... These "people" are different how?
Juggernaut8000 posted at 4:12 pm on Wed, May 9, 2012.
They should use convicted felons and illegal immigrants for their studies. Not innocent animals. Using human specimens would also yield better and more reliable feedback for the researcher; no cost either!
jimmyjacked posted at 4:34 am on Thu, May 10, 2012.
As horrible as you think Covance is you should thank God you don't have MPI Research in your backyard. Google MPI some time if you want to see a CRO with a truly abysmal public track record for animal abuse. We can only hope we see a similar article in Michigan soon. Unlike Covance, MPI Research doesn't have anywhere else to hide since they're the largest SINGLE site CRO. Once they're gone they're gone for good!
Phil Anthropist posted at 10:59 am on Thu, May 10, 2012.
Here's a caption submission from John Doe:
Mayor Dunn to Wendell Barr: "About that size rumor we keep hearing, is it really true? And is that a souvenir from your bris?"