Shamrock Farm

Shamrock Farm was Britain's only primate importation and quarantine centre, located in Small Dole, West Sussex. Primates captured from the wild, or purchased from breeding facilities, were held there for two months for tests, until they were ready to be sold to animal-testing and vivisection laboratories across Europe. It was Europe's largest supplier of primates for vivisection, and held up to 350 monkeys at a time, processing around 2,500 a year, and selling them for around £1,600 each. Almost all of the 2,467 macaques used in British laboratories in 1998 came through Shamrock. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/0006good.htm

Related Topics:
Primate - Quarantine - Small Dole - West Sussex - Animal-testing - Vivisection - Europe - Macaque

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The centre, owned by Bausch and Lomb, and run by Charles River for Shamrock (GB) Ltd, closed in 2000 after a 15-month protest by British animal-rights activists, who campaigned under the name "Save the Shamrock Monkeys." http://web.ukonline.co.uk/archangel2003/cafin/shamfacts.htm

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