Editing Huntingdon Life Sciences (section)

{{Short description|Contract research organisation}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Huntingdon Life Sciences
| logo = File:Huntingdon-logo-for-wiki.jpg
| fate = Merged into Envigo (now [[Inotiv]])
| successor = [[Inotiv]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1951}} in [[Cambridgeshire, England]]
| location = [[East Millstone, New Jersey]]
| area_served = Global
| key_people = [[Brian Cass]], Former Managing Director
| industry = [[Pharmaceutical industry]]
| services = [[Contract research organization]]
| revenue = $242 million
| operating_income = $35 million
| net_income = $10 million
| assets = $171 million
| equity = -$15 million
| num_employees = >1,600
| footnotes = <ref name=10K>{{cite news| url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158833/000115883309000010/form10k2008.htm | publisher=[[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]] | title=LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH INC. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2008 | date=March 16, 2009}}</ref>
}}
'''Huntingdon Life Sciences''' ('''HLS''') was a [[contract research organisation]] (CRO) organized in Maryland and headquartered in [[East Millstone, New Jersey]]. It was founded in 1951 in [[Cambridgeshire, England]]. It had two laboratories in the United Kingdom and one in the United States. With over 1,600 employees, it was the largest non-clinical CRO in Europe and the third-largest non-clinical CRO in the world.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2014/05/07/Huntingdon-buys-Harlan-to-form-3rd-largest-preclinical-CRO |title=Huntingdon buys Harlan to form 3rd largest preclinical CRO | first=Dan | last=Stanton | work=Outsourcing Pharma | date=6 May 2014}}</ref> In September 2015, Huntingdon Life Sciences, [[Harlan (company)|Harlan Laboratories]], GFA, NDA Analytics and LSR associates merged into Envigo (now [[Inotiv]]).

HLS provided [[contract research organization]] services in pre-clinical and non-clinical biological safety evaluation research. As with other major CROs operating in this business area, its major business is serving the pharmaceutical industry. However, more than a third of its business came from non-pharmaceutical sources, such as the [[crop protection]] industry which accounts for around 60% of its non-pharmaceutical business.

HLS had two facilities in the UK ([[Huntingdon]], Cambridgeshire and [[Eye, Suffolk]]), one in the USA ([[East Millstone, New Jersey]]) and an office in Japan (Tokyo).

The company was one of the largest participants in the [[international primate trade]] and has been criticized for its [[animal testing]] practices, most specifically [[animal testing on non-human primates]] as well as on [[beagle]]s. The [[Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty]] campaign was formed with the goal of shutting down the company due to [[animal rights]] violations.