Ethical and Legal Considerations

Question 1

What shapes our attitude?

Answer 1

• Upbringing
• Literature
• Religious beliefs
• Legislation
• Education

Question 2

What year did it become illegal to test on animals?

cosmetics

Answer 2

2009

Question 3

When was household chemical testing banned?

Answer 3

2015

Question 4

What is the animals act 1986?

Answer 4

Subject to the provisions of this section, “a protected animal” for the purposes of this Act
means any living vertebrate other than man [F1and any living cephalopod] .
(2)Any such vertebrate in its foetal, larval or embryonic form is a protected animal only
from the stage of its development when—
(a)in the case of a mammal, bird or reptile, [F2two-thirds of] the gestation or incubation
period for the relevant species has elapsed; and
(b)in any other case, it becomes capable of independent feeding.

Question 5

What is Contingent suffering?

Answer 5

The infliction of distress as an unnecessary by-product

Question 6

When was the Animal Scientific Procedures act revised?

Answer 6

2013

Question 7

What is the governing body of the animal scientific procedures act?

Answer 7

The Home Office

Question 8

What three licenses are required for the animal scientific procedures act?

Answer 8

➢ personal license for each person carrying out procedures on animals
➢ project license for the programme of work
➢ establishment license for the place at which the work is carried out

Question 9

What is Clinical Veterinary Research?

Answer 9

Routine procedures are undertaken to benefit the animal procedure

Question 10

What is RVP?

Answer 10

Procedures and techniques performed on an animal by a registered veterinary surgeon

Question 11

What must you do if a procedure is not RVP?

Answer 11

Must be regulated under ASPA with the Home Office License

Question 12

What is the purpose of implementing the 3 R’s in a research project?

Answer 12

Implementing the 3Rs requires that, in every research proposal animals are
replaced with non animal alternatives wherever possible;
* that the number of animals is reduced to the minimum needed to achieve the results sought;
* that, for those animals which must be used, procedures are refined as much as possible to minimise their suffering

Question 13

What is the ethics review panel?

Answer 13

subcomitee reporting to the standards comittee
Aim- Provide a Mechanism for practice-based research