https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/feds-slap-valley-biosystems-with-official-warning-for-animal-welfare-violations-resulting-in-strangulation-deaths-of-monkeys-peta-statement/

June 5, 2025

Sacramento – Please see the following statement from Amy Meyer, Associate Director of Primate Experimentation Campaigns at PETA, regarding a just-posted enforcement action taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against Valley Biosystems, a contract testing laboratory in West Sacramento. The facility, which used 371 monkeys in experiments and confined another 1,247 monkeys last year, has received an Official Warning, a rare occurrence reserved for the most egregious offenses. The agency’s action follows USDA’s earlier pair of critical violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act at the laboratory for incidents in which two monkeys died by strangulation in separate incidents: