Important Dates

Question 1

Formal establishment of Animal Care Panel. Date?

Answer 1

1950

Question 2

Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act. Date?

Answer 2

1994

Question 3

The Nuremberg Code. Date?

Answer 3

1947 (Schuster)

Question 4

Health Research Extension Act. Date?

Answer 4

1985

Question 5

When did the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia (POE) start date?

Answer 5

1963

Question 6

AVMA Guideline 1st edition for cats, dogs and other small mammals. Date?

Answer 6

1963

Question 7

AVMA Guideline 2nd/3rd edition adding more euthanasia methods and species (Laboratory animals and food animals). Dates?

Answer 7

1972 and 1978

Question 8

AVMA Guideline 4th edition added recommendations for horses and wildlife. Date?

Answer 8

1986

Question 9

AVMA Guideline 5th edition added more research on approaches suitable for depopulation. Date?

Answer 9

2000

Question 10

AVMA Guideline 6th edition incorporated information derived from an existing, but separate, AVMA policy on the use of maceration to euthanize day-old chicks, poults, and pipped eggs, and the name of the report
was changed to the AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia. Date?

Answer 10

2007

Question 11

AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia 1st after name change- POE’s report was changed to include more breadth and depth of expertise in the affected species in which euthanasia is performed. Date?

Answer 11

2013

Question 12

AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia 2nd after name change. Current edition. Date?

Answer 12

2020

Question 13

Animal Care Panel (ACP) date? (known today as AALAS)

Answer 13

1950

Question 14

The Hygienic Laboratory was renamed the National Institute of Health (NIH) date?

Answer 14

1930s

Question 15

The first Guide date?

Answer 15

1963

Question 16

AAALAC date?

Answer 16

1965

Question 17

Passage of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) date? (The first US federal law to protect laboratory animal welfare)

Answer 17

1966