A Louisiana research facility has been cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture after transporting monkeys to Reno without valid health certificates, according to a newly released federal inspection report.
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service cited the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center for shipping 34 long-tailed macaques to a laboratory in Reno on January 8, 2025, despite the animals being examined by a licensed veterinarian more than 10 days before transport — outside the window allowed under federal regulations.
Federal rules require nonhuman primates to be examined by a USDA-accredited veterinarian no more than 10 days before crossing state lines to help reduce the risk of disease transmission. According to the inspection report, the macaques were examined on December 12, 2024, nearly four weeks before they were transported to Nevada…