Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., hit out at a South Carolina research laboratory over its alleged treatment of animal test subjects after multiple primates escaped from the company’s facilities last week.

More than 40 primates escaped from the scientific research facility Alpha Genesis last week, an incident that prompted local officials to use traps and thermal imaging equipment in an attempt to recapture the animals. Thirty-two of the primates have been returned to the facility, including two rhesus macaque monkeys who were recaptured on Tuesday.

Mace, whose district includes Yemassee, where the facility is located, has sharply criticized the company over their research involving primates, writing a letter to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture with her concerns about the animals’ welfare.

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