The animal rights movement can do without the violence or ARM, if this a geniune
action by them. Is it a hoax or dirty tricks?
Can anyone confirm one way or the other please?

Here's the article from ITN website.

"Savlon 'contaminated by extremists'

ITN - Thursday, August 30 01:06 pmThousands of tubes of Savlon have been recalled after animal rights extremists claimed they had been deliberately contaminated.

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Boots, Superdrug and Tesco removed the antiseptic cream after the Animal Rights Militia claimed it had tampered with 250 products.

An ARM blog says the group carried out the contamination because it believes there are links between Savlon manufacturer Novartis and testing firm Huntingdon Life Sciences.

The claim, posted two days ago, says: "Over the last five days over 250 tubes and bottles of Novartis's antiseptic product Savlon have been tampered with in the North of England in stores such as Superdrug, Boots and other well known stores.

"We don't want to kill living beings like Novartis, but the side effects and the inevitable hospital stay will give people an idea of what Novartis pays for inside Huntingdon Life Sciences."

In a statement, Boots said it had been alerted to the alleged contamination by the blog.

"We want to reassure customers that their safety is our number one priority and therefore we have taken the decision as a precautionary measure to withdraw all Savlon products from our shelves nationwide until further investigations have been carried out," it said.

Superdrug was alerted to the incident on Wednesday and pulled Savlon products from stores, saying: "We worked with the police yesterday and took the products off sale yesterday afternoon."

Tesco said it had temporarily withdrawn Savlon from sale on the advice of the police".