Lesson 3: Research Mandates Flashcards
The humane treatment of animals used in research, research training, and biological testing is mainly regulated by two federal agencies?
*The United States department of agriculture (USDA)/animal care
*The national institutes of health (NIH)/office of laboratory animal welfare (OLAW) if institution holds a Public Health Service (PHS) animal welfare assurance.
Since fish are poikilotherms, are they subject to regulations promulgated by the USDA under Animal Welfare Act?
No, but they are covered by public health service (PHS)
If institution receives funding from PHS, your research must also comply with?
National Research Council (NRC) publication, the guide for the care and use of laboratory animals (The Guide).
NIH issued, in February 2023, a notice to?
Encourage award recipients to include the animal research: reporting in viv experiments form, which are essential elements of study design.
The United States department of the interior (USDOI) delegates responsibility for?
Oversight of threatened or endangered fish in international and interstate commerce to its fish and wildlife services (FWS).
Regulations imposed by CITES or endangered species act categorize what?
Different species according to the degree to which the wild populations are at risk of extinction, and they establish rules for trading in such species or prohibit trade altogether.