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Response to Protocol Review Scenario: Violators beware!

Lab Animal volume 36, pages 13–14 (2007)Cite this article

If Great Eastern University has failed to comply with the AWA regulations, the public will be able to discover that fact.

Dr. Madela is correct that a USDA VMO may take photographs in order to document a research facility's alleged noncompliance with the AWA regulations, especially in this situation of an alleged repeat occurrence. The regulations explicitly authorize creating such documentation1. Madela's belief that the caked-on fecal material and mold in the monkey cages demonstrate Great Eastern's failure to comply with the regulations' sanitation standards justifies the creation of a photographic record.

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  1. 9 CFR §2.38(b)(1).

  2. 9 CFR §2.35(f).

  3. 9 CFR §2.35.

  4. 5 USC §552.

  5. 7 CFR §Part 370.

  6. 9 CFR §2.35(f).

  7. 5 USC §552(b).

  8. 5 USC §552(b)(7).

  9. 5 USC §552(b)(3)

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