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Roche
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Roche (Hoffmann-La Roche) is a global pharmaceutical and medical services company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The company specializes in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and biotechnology and virology. Specialty areas also include autoimmune diseases, inflammatory and metabolic disorders and diseases of the central nervous system. In 2007, the company had sales of 46.1 billion Swiss francs (45.47 billion dollars). Out of this amount, 36.8 billion francs came from the company's pharmaceutical division and 9.3 billion came from its' diagnostics division. Roche has Research and Development (R&D) agreements and strategic alliances with numerous partners. The company invested over 8 billion Swiss francs in R&D in 2007 and employed approximately 79,000 people. [1]
Genentech, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company and one of the world's most financially successful biotechnology corporations. Roche, which previously owned a majority of stock in the San Francisco based firm, took full ownership in 2009. [2]
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Animal testing
Roche does animal testing.
Animals by species, numbers & locations (United States)
- Nutley, New Jersey [3]
- Palo Alto, California [4]
Numbers of primates being used & held (United States)
- Nutley, New Jersey & Palo Alto, CA [5]
Facility information, progress reports & USDA-APHIS reports
For copies of this facility's U.S. Department of Agriculture-Animal Plant Health Inspection (APHIS) reports, other information and links, see also Stop Animal Experimentation Now!: Facility Reports and Information. This site lists each of the 50 states; each state's name links to biomedical research facilities in that state, and to PDF copies of government documents where the facilities must report their animal usage.
The Roche Palo Alto LLC lab performed animal experiments involving pain or distress but no analgesics, anesthetics or pain relievers were administered. [6]
Roche's subsidiary Genetech also does animal testing. See also Genentech.
Contract testing
Roche contract tests out to Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). [7] HLS is the 3rd largest contract research organization (CRO) in the world and the largest animal testing facility in all of Europe. Firms hire HLS to conduct animal toxicity tests for agrochemicals, petrochemicals, household products, pharmaceutical drugs and toxins. HLS has a long history of gross animal welfare violations. See also Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Cancer United
Cancer United is a pharmaceutical industry front group established by the Weber Shandwick public relations firm. It is funded entirely by Roche. [8]
Case Studies
- Roche's $ 65,000 Dinner For Australian Doctors
- Roche Supplies Xenical Weight Loss Drug to UK Diet Clinic
Roche products
Contact
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Roche Group Media Office
Corporate Communications
CH-4070 Basel
Switzerland
Telephone +41-61-688 8888
Telefax +41-61-688 2775
Web address: http://www.roche.com/home.html
Articles & Sources
SourceWatch resources
- Animal testing
- Genentech
- Huntingdon Life Sciences
- International Association for the Study of Obesity
- International Obesity Task Force
- National Primate Research Center System
- Patient Groups
- Pharmaceutical industry
- War on Cancer
References
- ↑ Record operating results for Roche again in 2007, Roche Media Release, January 2008
- ↑ Company Description: Genentech, Hoovers, accessed December 2007
- ↑ Research Facilities: Roche, Nutley, NJ, Humane Society of the United States, accessed February 2009
- ↑ Research Facilities: Roche, Palo Alto, CA, HSUS, February 2009
- ↑ Numbers of Nonhuman Primates at U.S. Research Facilities, HSUS, accessed December 2009
- ↑ Facility Reports and Information: Roche LLC Lab, Palo Alto, CA, SAEN, accessed December 2009
- ↑ Inside Customers, SHAC.net, December 2009
- ↑ Sarah Boseley, Concern over cancer group's link to drug firm, The Guardian, October 2006
External articles
- Ray Moynihan, "Drug giant 'forks out $65K for doctors' meals'", The Australian, July 21, 2006.
- "Company Suspended From ABPI Membership Over Breaches Of Code Of Practice", Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Media Release, July 2008.
