Animal Scientfic Procedures Act

Question 1

Purpose of ASPA legislation?

Answer 1

• define legitimate purposes for animal use in science
  -impose limits on pain and suffering
• provide inspection of facilities and procedures
• humane standards of husbandry and car
• humane standards of hudbandr and care
  -ensure public accountability

Question 2

What are regulated procedures?

Answer 2

Any procedure that causes suffering, distress or lasting harm

Question 3

What are non-regulated procedures

Answer 3

• non-experimental
• ringing, tagging or marking animals for identification only
• humane killing

Question 4

What is the defination of living?

Answer 4

An animal shall be regarded as continuing to live until the perminant cessation of cirulation or the destruction
- as brain destruction is incomplete in de-cerebrate animals such as animals are considered to be living for the purposes of the Act and are therefore protected

Question 5

Whast are banned activites?

Answer 5

• testing of finished consmetics/ ingreadients
• testing alchol or tabaco
• tesing offensive wepons
• re-use of animals (other than autherised)

Question 6

Projects are only autherised if?

Answer 6

• no suitable althernatives
• number of nimals needed is recuced
  -procedures must be rfied

Question 7

How is the act utilitariam?

Answer 7

• benifits wieghed against costs
• based on likely outcomes (scientific quality, experimental design, minimum number of animals, lowest neuro-physiological sensitivity

Question 8

Types of licences and certificates?

Answer 8

• personal licence
• project licence
• certificate of designation to head of organisation
  (all three required in every case)

Question 9

Whast is required for a personal licence?

Answer 9

• adequate training
• 18 or over
• specific conditions attached to licence
  -primarily responcible for the animals un der their care

Question 10

What is required for project licences?

Answer 10

• basic physiology or biology
• prevention, diagnosis or treatment of disease
• animal welfare
• toxilogical studies
• protection of environment
• education
• preserving rare species
  -forensic enquires
• breeding of animals for scientific use
  neuromuscular blocking agents

Question 11

What are thwe different severity limits?

Answer 11

• mild = may give rise to slight or transitory minor effects
• moderate = screening and developmentof pharmaceuticals
• sevre = protocols that result in majour departure from the animals usual state of wellbeing

Question 12

What is humane killing?

Answer 12

• overdose of anastetic
• rising concentration of CO2
• dislocation of neck
• concussion
  coptive bolt, free bullet, stunning and exsanguination

Question 13

How are animals courced for scientific studies?

Answer 13

• from breeders with certificate of designation
• wild caught (only when no captive source)
• no endangered species unless (research is aimed at there survival, biomedicval)
• enuthinased at the end of procedured (unless not in opain and there is no lasting harm