Harlan (company)
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Harlan is an international company that supplies animals and other services for experimentation. It is based in the United States, but has branches in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Israel, Mexico, and Scandinavia.
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In the UK, Harlan has long been the target of animal rights activists. It currently has sites in Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Leicestershire.
Harlan UK is based in Bicester, and breeds rodents.
Harlan Interfauna is based in Huntingdon, and breeds beagles, rabbits and rodents. It is the main supplier of beagles to Huntingdon Life Sciences. The Interfauna site has been raided several times by the Animal Liberation Front. In 1990, 82 beagles and 26 rabbits were taken. John Curtin and Danny Attwood were later convicted for this raid and sentenced to eighteen and nine months respectively. It was raided again in 1999, when 71 beagles were taken.
Harlan Sera-Lab is based in Loughborough. It breeds beagles and was the focus of an undercover investigation in 1999 by an investigator working for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).
Harlan also had several breeding farms in East Sussex. These farms were the focus of animal rights protests from 2000. Several closed shortly after in 2000, with further closures in 2004.
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