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Yerkes Warned for failure to adequately train personnel to perform their duties. ''......we remain deeply committed to providing the highest standards of humane care and treatment for the animals at our center.'' Stuart Zola, Yerkes' Director, Emory
Wheel, Nov. 22, 2005 The USDA/APHIS issued an Official Warning to Yerkes 10/13/01, for a violation of federal regulation, 9 CFR, Section 2.32(a): Failure to ensure employees are adequately trained to perform their duties. Emory/Yerkes received a Warning for 9 CFR, Section 3.80(a)(2)(ii): Failure to provide primary enclosures constructed and maintained so that they protect the non-human primates from injury. This Warning is a result of an animal caretaker failing to ''notice chain used to secure metabolism cage to wall was not attached. A Rhesus macaque was strangled by the loose chain." Is this Zola's idea of ''highest standards of humane care and treatment"? No fine was imposed on Yerkes or Emory for thes failures to properly perform their job to protect animals. The USDA's OIG recently issued a scathing report concerning APHIS' failure to impose fines or penalties in such incidents. The full Report can be found at http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/33002-03-SF.pdf This is yet another example of how poorly research facilities are operated and the failure of the USDA/APHIS to perform their job. Despite numerous requests to USDA, Primate Freedom Project has been unable to obtain any identification numbers for this Rhesus.
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