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Harvard shows changes at primate lab

Independent panel to review center as training, daily checks are intensified

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 16, 2012

Harvard Medical School officials gave a Globe reporter a rare tour of the New England Primate Research Center this week to demonstrate the relatively low-tech fixes that are intended to increase accountability of workers and add backup systems to prevent mistakes in animal care, which had contributed to four deaths and other harm to monkeys. The visit coincided with Harvard’s announcement of the independent specialists appointed to a committee charged with reviewing the management, operations, and staffing of the center.

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