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- DICEY DEAL. A stock buyout has animal-rights activists
- angry and taking boycott action. International Research &
- Development Corp., a Michigan firm, acquired Carme, a company
- that markets several "cruelty-free" cosmetic lines. Carme was
- attractive because consumers like its policy of using natural
- ingredients that do not require laboratory tests on animals.
- IRDC, on the other hand, tests drugs, pesticides and household
- products on more than 40,000 animals annually. Critics also
- point out that an IRDC technician died last year after being
- infected with a rare herpes-virus carried by a monkey used in
- a pharmaceutical project, prompting the Michigan department of
- public health to slap the company with more than $30,000 in
- fines.
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