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Response to Protocol Review Scenario: Review animal welfare SOPs

Lab Animal volume 41, pages 41–42 (2012)Cite this article

Should IACUCs as mandated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)1, the Public Health Service Policy on Humans Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (PHS Policy)2 and the eighth edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (the Guide)3 have the authority to approve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)? Our IACUC is currently reviewing this question. The IACUC members, fully familiar with federal regulations and the Guide, are an institution's subject matter experts. The IACUC provides regulatory compliance guidance; serves as a resource to facility management on animal welfare issues; provides valuable input to the facility management concerning the interpretation of issues covered in the Guide; and provides scientific and ethical knowledge of a range of procedures.

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  1. Animal Welfare Act. Public Law 89-544. 7 U.S.C. 2131 et seq.

  2. Public Health Service. Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 1986, amended 2002).

  3. Committee for the Update of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. 8th edn. (National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2011).

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  1. Horner is IACUC Chair and McKeon is Study Director at BioReliance Corporation, Rockville, MD.

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Horner, C., McKeon, M. Response to Protocol Review Scenario: Review animal welfare SOPs. Lab Anim 41, 41–42 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban0212-41b

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