Guide to the care and use of experimental animals, Volume 1

Topics covered by the Guide include responsibility for the care and use of experimental animals, laboratory animal facilities, the environment, farm animal facilities and environment, laboratory animal care, social and behavioural requirements of experimental animals, special practices, health and safety in the workplace, standards for experimental animal surgery, control of animal pain in research, teaching and testing, anesthesia, euthanasia, the use of animals in psychology, guidelines on the use of animals in neurobiological research, and appendices.

An updated version of the 2nd Edition of this volume from 1993 was released in March 2017.

The guidelines in this volume are gradually being replaced by these guidelines.

Volume 2 (1984) is no longer available and has been replaced by these species-specific guidelines.

The CCAC has produced a large range of guidelines, policy statements and other recognised standards since 1984.