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Protect the gatekeeper

Lab Animal volume 49, pages 153–154 (2020)Cite this article

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This scenario investigates whistleblower protection for reporting noncompliance issues in an animal research setting. Here, Richmond is an institutional laboratory employee that performed an animal research procedure without Great Eastern University’s (GEU) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee’s (IACUC) approval, as instructed by his mentor Dr. Levine. As “conducting research animal activity without the IACUCs approval is a serious noncompliance with the Animal Welfare Act and Regulations,”1 Richmond never should have performed the procedure without IACUC approval in the first place, but he risked losing his job with Levine’s lab if he refused to conduct the experiment.

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  1. Code of Federal Regulations. Title 9, Chapter 1, Subchapter a – Animal Welfare: Part 2 regulations (§2.31).

  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. Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. What Investigators Need to Know About the Use of Animals. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/Investigatorsneed2Know.pdf

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    Jeffrey Etue

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Etue, J. Protect the gatekeeper. Lab Anim 49, 153–154 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-020-0554-9

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