Protests Against $100 Million Covance Lab in Arizona Illustrate Challenges of Medical Research, an Industrial Info News Alert
SUGAR LAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2006--Written by Annette Kreuger, VP Pharma-Biotech for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The temperature is rising in Maricopa County. Drug development firm Covance (Madison, Wisconsin) touched off a firestorm of emotion with its 2005 purchase of a 38-acre site in Chandler, Arizona. With plans to eventually build out a nearly 600,000-square-foot medical research and animal-testing campus and employ up to 1,200 people, the company had hoped to be greeted with open arms. Instead, they might be semi-seriously considering the need to bear arms against the voracious fight being waged against the construction by an assortment of very vocal animal rights groups scattered across the globe.


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