We live in remarkable times. Many of us experience a standard of living and
healthcare that would be inconceivable to our great grandparents. Moreover we
enjoy and expect the right to high standards of quality and safety in the products
we use.
But this level of expectation demands a high level of safety assessment, particularly
when it concerns products with the potential to cause personal harm or injury.
On a daily basis we have contact with an astonishing variety of such substances,
for example:
- Medicines
- Food additives
- Food packaging
- Adhesives
- Clothes dyes
- Veterinary products
As consumers we strive for a 'no-risk' guarantee.
In response, government regulatory bodies insist upon stringent and comprehensive
safety testing for these products, including testing on animals. Huntingdon
Life Sciences provides this essential service for a wide variety of customers
including governmental agencies.
It is our job to ensure that these tests are performed to strict scientific
criteria, provide reliable results that can be reproduced, and with leading
standards of animal care and welfare.
This places an important burden of responsibility
upon us, one which we do not take lightly. We have to respect the needs
of the animals and be fully aware of the welfare issues involved. We are
committed to providing the highest levels of animal husbandry and welfare.
In May 2003 Huntingdon Life sciences was awarded an Achievement of Accreditation
by the Association For Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal
Care, AAALAC (aaalac.org).
We are one of only a few Contract Research Organisations in the world
to be accredited.
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