Thermo Fisher Backs Down on Tibet DNA Kit Sales

Posted 1/4/24

Tibet rights campaigners have welcomed a commitment by Boston-based biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific to halt sales of its DNA test kits (“HID”) products to police in occupied Tibet.

Thermo Fisher communicated this commitment to shareholders in a letter in December and it took effect on 31 December 2023.

The announcement comes after more than a year of campaigning by Tibet groups.  The campaign was prompted by reports in 2022 revealing that Chinese police forces in occupied Tibet had been extensively using Thermo Fisher’s HID products, including DNA testing kits and DNA sequencing equipment to carry out a widespread, ethnically-targeted collection of DNA samples from Tibetans.

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