AWA Flashcards
What is the temp range for dogs or cats?
Awa
45-85f. With exceptions for <4 hr
How often do hard contact surfaces with dogs and cats need to be cleaned?
Awa
Daily spot cleaning
How much floor space is required for dogs to meet exercise requirements..
If grouped?
If individually housed?
Awa
100% for each dog in the group
2x the single requirement
What is the individual floor space requirement for dogs…
Less than 12 weeks?
> 12 weeks?
Awa
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= (Length + 6 )^2\ 144= sq ft
How many hours in a study area designates the space a satellite facility by the AWA?
12 hours
How many members on an iacuc and what is the make up?
3…vet, non-affiliated, chair
No more than 3 members per department
What did the 1976 1st amendment do?
Extended reg to commercial carriers, sizes of transportation containers, exclusion of mus, rattus, birds, horses
Any live or dead dog (all dogs including, hunting, security,breeding) cat, NHP, GP, HA, RA, or other warm blooded animal used in research, teaching, testing, experimentation, exhibition, and pets; when was this definition made?
AWA; 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act
What are the exceptions in the definition of animal by the AWA?
Mus, Rattus, birds, horses, animals used in food or fiber…or the research of it
What differentiates a field study from field research by the AWA?
Study is just watching, tourist path at the zoo
Research anything else
What was the Act that was passed in 1985 that implemented the composition and function of the IACUC called and what else did it do?
Food Security Act
Personnel training, standards for exercise for dogs and PWB for NHPs, defined one maj operative procedure, search for duplication and alternatives
When was the Food, agriculture, conservation, and trade Act implemented and what did it do?
1990, minimum of 5 day holding time before pounds can provide live cars and dogs to class B dealers
Wh is legally committed for the institute doing research?
The IO
How often are primary enclosures inspected by IACUC?
Every 6 months
What is the USDA vet called and what are findings called?
Veterinary medical officer; citations
If same citation is made multiple times, it is called continuing non compliance and is fine-able
How often are USDA research facilities registered?
Every 3 yr
How often must the IACUC review the program? The facilities? Provide a report to the IO?
6/6/6 months!
Who does the IO report IACUC protocol suspensions to?
USDA AHPHIS OLAW / and funding agency
How long do animal records need to be kept? AWA
3 years
When is the USDA report due? What period does it cover?
Dec 1, 1OCT- SEPT 30
How often do protocol exemptions need to be reviewed by the IACUC? How often do exemptions to exercise or PWB need to be reviewed and by whom?
Every 12 months; every 30 days by the AV
What is the requirement for cat floor space by the AWA?
3:4kg:4, 24inches high
Can include clean litter
Must have elevated perch can be included in floor space, area under it can be if animal can get into normal posture underneath
How do you house GP by AWA?
If outside needs deputy administator approval, 60-80 F, 60; 350 g; 101 / 7 inches, 15 per transportation container, 45-85 F, food and water q 6
How do you house HA by AWA?
Not outside; at 60-85 F; 10: 60g ; 13: 80g ; 16:100g:19. / 6 inches
50 per container during shipment
45-85 F, food and water q 6 hr
How r rabbits housed by AWA standards?
40-85, no heat needed if inside, cleaned q 7 days, sanitized q 30 days, solid bottom with litter
1.5: 2kg: 3: 4kg: 4: 5.4kg: 5….14 inches high
With litter:
4: 2 kg : 5 :4kg :6 : 5.4kg: 7…14 inches high, needs nest box
Shipment: 15 per container, 45-85 F, f&w q 6hr
NHP outside housing by AWA standards?
All must be able to fit under shelter, perimeter fence must be 6 feet high and 3 feet from primary enclosure
Restraint rules in NHP by AWA?
If > 12 hr of continuous restraint, needs one hr without restraint during that time
What act established the creation of an information service at the National Agricultural Library in cooperation with the National Library of Medicine? What is the name of that service?
The Food Security Act of 1985, AWIC
Pertinent to employee training, prevent unitended duplication of animal experimentation, improved methods of experimentation
