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The
Horseman's Voice challenges international drug manufacturer Amgen
Calls for
distribution records in light of two international horse doping
scandals
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[JUNE 27, 2006]
CHICAGO -- The Horseman's Voice on Tuesday
officially marks the fight with international drug manufacturer
Amgen in light of two doping scandals in the Standardbred horse
racing industry. Amgen, a publicly traded company in the United
States, manufactures the drugs Epogen and Aranesp at their
manufacturing plant in Longwood, Colo., with distributors located
across the United States.
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The following link lists all of the U.S. authorized wholesalers for
Amgen:
www.amgen.com/
medpro/authorized_wholesalers.html.
The Horseman's Voice is providing links via the Internet for the
entire world to see firsthand the depth of these scandals, which are
bigger in scope than the Olympic cycling doping scandal with Epogen
a few years ago. In communication with Amgen directly, The
Horseman's Voice was misled in believing that brochures and CDs
would be delivered in anticipation of developing educational
materials for the entire horse racing industry. Only the following
link was sent referring to the Olympic cycling doping scandal:
www.horsemansvoice.com/Anti-Doping2-9D.pdf.
[To download Adobe Acrobat Reader for the PDF
file, click here.]
Amgen's associate director for corporate public relations
responded to requests from The Horseman's Voice to work in unison by
stating on behalf on Amgen on May 26:
"Thank you for
contacting Amgen regarding your concerns about doping in horse
racing. We appreciate your invitation to address the Illinois Racing
Board and to develop educational materials specifically targeted to
the horse racing industry, but must decline, as we are not staffed
to respond to requests of this nature.
"Amgen discovers
and develops innovative and vital human therapeutics that over the
years have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer,
kidney disease and other serious illnesses. Amgen is committed to
combating inappropriate use of its vital medicines and educating
about the potential dangers of misusing drugs of any kind, and will
continue to collaborate closely with national and international
organizations to help develop effective tests to detect doping.
"Thank you, again,
for your inquiry, and for understanding why we must decline."
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 The Horseman's Voice says that the actions and answers by this
multibillion-dollar worldwide corporation are not sufficient to the
challenges the horse racing industry is now facing in reference to
these scandals.
Eric M. Poders, publisher of The Horseman's Voice and animal
rights activist, stated: "We challenge all media practitioners,
horse racing jurisdictions, racing commissions, racetrack
management, animal activists/purists/lovers and even the fans of the
sport internationally to put pressure on this company NOW, as we
need to get Amgen to show their distribution records for the drugs
Epogen and Aranesp, especially how their numbers have dropped from
certain wholesalers and/or distributors since these scandals broke."
The Horseman's Voice is an international online media outlet as
well as a facilitator of information in the Standardbred (harness)
racing industry. For more information, contact publisher Eric M.
Poders at 1 (847) 530-2222 or
publisher@horsemansvoice.com.
[News release from
The
Horseman's Voice]
For more information on nationwide scandals named Ledford and
Rucker:
Ledford links
Rucker links
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