A Seton Hall University faculty member and staff in a campus research lab left about 76 mice unattended for up to 17 days at a time, and the university had no choice but to euthanize the animals, school officials told federal investigators.
The staff in the lab at the South Orange university denied the mice the “essential necessities needed to sustain life” and left their overcrowded cages black with feces, with dead baby mice present, the school’s interim president said in a letter to federal officials after an animal neglect investigation.
The faculty member and staff have been barred from working with lab animals for a year, according to a letter Seton Hall Interim President Katia Passerini sent to the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare on Jan. 26.
