USDA-APHIS Animal Care Manual
| Record number: | 8e21f (legacy id: 15237) |
|---|---|
| Category: | Agricultural animals - Anaesthesia and analgesia - Birds - Design - Ethics & harm-benefit analysis - Handling (3R Guide) - Housing and management - Non-human primates - Procedures - Surgical research - Transport - Wildlife |
| Type: | Regulations and policies |
| Relevance: | Reduction - Refinement - Replacement |
The US Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an Animal Care Policy Manual containing 20 policies relating to the care and use of animals. Some of these were relevant to animal experiments, in particular:
- policy #7: Brachiating species of non-human primates
- policy #9: Adequate enclosures for flying species and aquatic species
- policy #10: Specific activities requiring a licence or registration
- policy #11: Painful and distressful procedures
- policy #12: Consideration of alternatives to painful/distressful procedures
- policy #13: Animal identification
- policy #14: Major survival surgery dealers selling surgically-altered animals to research
- policy #15: Institutional official and IACUC membership
- policy #17: Regulation of agricultural animals
The Manual has now been rescinded.
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