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'''Novartis''' is a global [[pharmaceutical]] and [[biotechnology]] corporation with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. The company specializes in biotechnological drugs, vaccines, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, animal healthcare health care products, contact lenses and lense care products. It is the world's 5th largest vaccine producer. It distributes in over 140 countries through approximately 100,000 associates. <ref>[http://www.novartis.com/about-novartis/people/index.shtml Welcome to Novartis], Novartis, January 2010</ref>  Novartis and [[AstraZeneca]] are the parent companies of [[Syngenta]], a Swiss global agribusiness company formed in 2000 from the agrochemical and seed divisions of Novartis, and the agrochemicals and biotechnology research divisions of AstraZeneca. Syngenta is the world’s second biggest player in agrochemicals and the third biggest seed producer. <ref>[http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=212 Syngenta: A Corporate Profile], Corporate Watch, November 2002</ref> In the fiscal year ending in December of 20082009, Novartis the company reported sales of 42approximately $45.58 1 billion dollars and had 9699,717 834 employees. <ref>[http://www.hoovers.com/company/Novartis_AG/htscri-1-1njea5.html Company Description: Key Novartis AGFinancials], Hoovers, accessed December 2009January 2011</ref>

[[Image:2007-associates.jpg|thumb|NOVARTIS ASSOCIATES BY REGION AND BY BUSINESS]]

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===Animals by speciesFacility information, numbers progress reports & locations (United States)USDA-APHIS reports===* Novartis Pharmaceuticals CorporationFor links to copies of a facility's [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] (USDA)-Animal Plant Health Inspection (APHIS) reports, East Hanoverother information and links, New Jersey <ref>see also [http://www.hsusall-creatures.org/animals_in_research/general_information_on_animal_researchsaen/research_facilities/novartisres-pharmaceuticals-corporationfr.html Research FacilitiesStop Animal Experimentation NOW!: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New JerseyFacility Reports and Information]. This site contains listings for all 50 states, [[Humane Society links to biomedical research facilities in that state and PDF copies of the United States]]government documents where facilities must report their animal usage. (Search: Cambridge, Massachusetts; San Diego, accessed May 2009</ref>California.)

* This facility performed animal experiments involving pain or distress but no analgesics, anesthetics or pain relievers were administered. For copies of this facility's USDA-APHIS reports, other information and links, see also Facility Reports and Information: Novartis Institutes For Biomedical ResearchAnimal Vaccines, Inc., CambridgeLarchwood, MassachusettsIA. <ref>[http://www.hsusall-creatures.org/animals_in_research/general_information_on_animal_researchsaen/research_facilitiesia/novartis-institutesres-forfr-biomedicalia-researchnav.html Research FacilitiesFacility Reports and Information: Novartis Institutes For Biomedical ResearchAnimal Vaccines, Inc., CambridgeLarchwood, MassachusettsIA], HSUSStop Animal Experimentation NOW!, accessed May 2009January 2011</ref>

* This facility performed animal experiments involving pain or distress but no analgesics, anesthetics or pain relievers were administered. For copies of this facility's USDA-APHIS reports, other information and links, see also Facility Reports and Information: Novartis Research Foundation Genomics InstitutePharmaceuticals Corporation, San DiegoEast Hanover, California NJ<ref>[http://www.hsusall-creatures.org/animals_in_researchsaen/general_information_on_animal_researchnj/research_facilities/genomics-inst-of-theres-novartisfr-reseachnj-foundationnpc.html Research FacilitiesFacility Reports and Information: Novartis Research Foundation Genomics InstitutePharmaceuticals Corporation, San DiegoEast Hanover, CaliforniaNJ], HSUSSAEN, accessed May 2009January 2011</ref>

* Novartis Animal Health U.S., Inc., Larchwood, Iowa <ref>[http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/general_information_on_animal_research/research_facilities/novartis-animal-health-us-i-n-c.html Research Facilities: Novartis Animal Health U.S., Inc., Larchwood, Iowa], HSUS, accessed May 2009</ref> ===Numbers of primates being used & held (United States)USDA AWA reports===* Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey<ref>[http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/chimps_deserve_better/monkey-use-in-research/numbers_nonhuman_primates.html Numbers As of Nonhuman Primates at U.S. Research Facilities]May 26, HSUS, accessed December 2009</ref> ===Facility information, progress reports & the USDA-APHIS reports===For copies of this facility's [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]-Animal Plant Health Inspection (APHIS) began posting all inspection reportsfor animal breeders, dealers, exhibitors, other information and linkshandlers, see also [http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/res-fr.html 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 usagecarriers by state. These facilities performed animal experiments involving pain or distress but no analgesics, anesthetics or pain relievers were administered.<ref> See also [http://www.all-creaturesaphis.usda.org/saengov/iaanimal_welfare/res-fr-ia-navinspection_list.html Facility shtml USDA Animal Welfare Inspection Reports and Information: Novartis Animal Vaccines, Inc., Larchwood, IA], SAEN, accessed December 2009</ref>, <ref>[http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/nj/res-fr-nj-npc.html Facility Reports and Information: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ], SAEN, accessed December 2009</ref>

The 150 page Diaries of Despair report based on the documentation, provides the public with an unprecedented and extensive insight into the reality of vivisection in Britain. Never before has so much secret information about animal experiments entered the public domain. The report was effectively banned for almost two and a half years by an injunction by Imutran and Novartis in late September of 2000. The leaked documentation reveals horrific animal suffering, corrects misleading public presentation of research and exposes government deception. The five part report provides background information on xenotransplantation (transplanting organs of one species into another); an overview of the leaked documents and the rationale behind transgenic pigs as a potential source of xenografts. It describe the suffering of primates used in the research and the legal framework regulating animal testing. The report documents baboons and cynomolgus monkeys, from (in the case of the baboons) capture in the wild, through transportation half way across the world and their deaths in experiments conducted at HLS.<ref>[http://www.xenodiaries.org/overview.htm Dairies of Despair: The Secret History of pig-to-primate organ transplants], Uncaged Campaigns, accessed January 2010</ref>  See also ''Dairies of Despair: Further Reading''. <ref>[http://www.xenodiaries.org/links.htm Dairies of Despair: Further Reading], Uncaged Campaigns, accessed January 2010</ref>

In experiments in Germany on rats supplied by the Basel laboratory, electrodes are implanted into the stomachs and brains of mice. ''Pilokarpin'' (a drug used to treat dry mouth associated with cancer radiotion treatment) is then injected to induce epilepsy. Some of the mice die due to the treatment and others are again killed and thier their brains examined. Surviving mice and subjected to a second injection of the drug Diazepam (Valium). They live up to 28 days with the implanted electrodes before they are killed. <ref>Journal of Neural Transmission 2007: 114, 239-248</ref>

Novartis has been plagued by a number of recent drug safety issues, including the delay of its diabetes drug Galvus and "evaluating" the launch of a generic version of its Lotrel blood pressure treatment. Norvatis Novartis withdrew the bowel drug Zelnorm from US shelves in March of 2007.

Under current policy, the government provides large subsidies to farmers to produce grains, in particularly corn and soybeans. Livestock producers use corn and soy as a base for animal feed as they are protein rich and fatten up the animals. They are also cheap (due to government subsidies.) Livestock consumes 47% of the soy and 60% of the corn produced in the US. <ref>[http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/feed/ The Issues: Corn and Soy], Sustainable Table, accessed December 2009</ref> See also [[Food and Drug AdministrationFDA]].

In October of 2007, an activist was shot and killed during a protest at a Syngenta farm in the southern Parana state. According to the MST, the farm illegally produced genetically modified crops (GMO)'s within a protected enviromental zone close to the internationally acclaimed Iguacu water falls. The Paraná State Federal Justice decided that experiments with GMOs in the surroundings of the Iguaçú National Park are illegal. According to Judge Vanessa Hoffman, the park has a a 10 km buffer zone and the company was fined R$ 1 million by Brazilian environmental authorities.

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