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USDA inspection data: what a difference a decade makes

Lab Animal volume 46, pages 283–284 (2017)Cite this article

The National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR) advocates for sound public policy in support of ethical and essential laboratory animal research. One of the essential elements for effective advocacy is being able present facts to those who establish public policy, and often those facts rely on data that are readily available on governmental agency websites. On February 3, 2017, the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was removing inspection reports, regulatory correspondence, research facility annual reports, and enforcement records that have not received final adjudication from its website. At the same time the Animal Care Information Service database was deactivated, which NABR uses to conduct an annual review and analysis of the inspection process for its membership. This information is presented in webinars, the most recent of which was entitled “The 2016 USDA Inspection Data: What a Difference a Decade Makes,” where we compared the research facility specific compliance data from FY 2016 with that reported by the USDA for FY 2006.

This comparison would have not been possible without access to the deactivated search tool which was used to develop a spreadsheet of the citations for FY 2016. In this News we will highlight the data for FY 2016 and compare it to data from a decade ago. The data demonstrate that the research community has made significant progress in terms of compliance over the last ten years.

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Bennett, B., Bailey, M. USDA inspection data: what a difference a decade makes. Lab Anim 46, 283–284 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban.1301

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