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Guangzhou plans China's biggest beagle breeding center

 

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Xinhuanet 2002-07-19 00:55:20

 

GUANGZHOU, July 18 (Xinhuanet) -- An pharmaceutical

institute in south China's Guangzhou city plans to

turn its beagle breeding center into the country's

largest next year, capable of breeding 8,000 dogs

annually for experiments.

 

A spokesman for the Guangzhou Institute of

Pharmaceutical Industry said the center, which outputs

800 beagles currently each year, would then become

biggest animal breeding center for pharmaceutical

experiments in China.

 

Chen Weiping, who is in charge of the center, said

most of the animals would be for overseas experiments.

 

 

The center was also planning to open a laboratory for

pharmaceutical companies at home and abroad to test

new drugs, Chen said.

 

The genetic purity of the beagle, which was originally

bred in Britain, made it an ideal animal for

experimentation, he said

 

It has been designated by the World Health

Organization as the first choice of dogs for safety

assessments of new drugs, foods, farm chemicals and

cosmetics.

 

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