SPARCONN LIFE SCIENCES was founded by a group of veterinary professionals in 2007, who have decades of research experience with rodents in Academia, Pharmaceuticals and Drug Discovery industry, with an aim to introduce the effective and economical bedding and nesting materials for laboratory animals in India. The company has its fully owned state-of-the-art ISO 9001:2015 and HACCP certified production facility to produce the bedding products with the highest degree of professionalism.

The company has been set up with the vision of providing world-class bedding and nesting products for the R&D. We view our professional experience as a vital component of our business strategy that will provide a sustainable, long-term competitive advantage in support of our global ambitions. We want to identify, develop, manufacture and successfully market innovative and cost-effective bedding and nesting products required for the care and good health of the rodents and the scientific community who work tirelessly in the animal facilities.

Importance of contact bedding

Experimental data generated in animal studies is influenced by two sets of variables; Genetic and Environmental. Unlike the genetic variables, the environmental variables can be controlled externally. One of the important variables in the microenvironment is the contact bedding. More often, the importance of the contact bedding is overlooked by the researchers. Remember, all the corn cob grit available in the market cannot be used as a contact bedding material as they are not manufactured keeping in mind, the critical scientific requirements of different laboratory rodents. The laboratory animals are in continuous association with their contact bedding throughout their lifetime.

Different species and strains with different physiological status require an exclusive type of contact bedding. It is not possible to find ideal contact bedding which meets all the requirements for the physiological well being of animals with different physiological status. Any adverse change in this variable can influence the experimental result to a larger extent. The researchers must exercise utmost caution while choosing an appropriate bedding material. Animal bedding is a controllable environmental variable that can influence experimental data and animal wellbeing. Selection of bedding is the choice of the investigator and depends on the physiological status of the animal and the research objective.