Regulatory Agencies
The agency responsible for overseeing vertebrate animal research at a given facility. They must inspect twice a year.
What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)?
The AWA governs the use of warm-blooded vertebrates (live or dead), except for these species:
What are 1) Birds, rats, and mice bred for use in research, and 2) Farm animals used for use in food, fiber, or agricultural research?
This is the list of rules that must be followed if research is reviewed or funded by the Food and Drug Administration.
What is Good Laboratory Practices (GLP)?
This document must be submitted to the IACUC and approved before work on animals may begin.
What is the animal use or IACUC protocol?
Board-certified veterinarians who have passed the ACLAM exam are called this.
What is a Diplomat?
This agency enforces the Animal Welfare Act. It inspects facilities at least once a year.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
According to the Animal Welfare Act, a painful procedure as applied to any animal is defined as
What is any procedure that would reasonably cause more than momentary pain or distress in a human being, that is, pain in excess of that caused by injections or other minor procedures?
Good laboratory practices require these written instructions for all husbandry and staff procedures.
What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)?
This is the scientist who plans and coordinates all phases of the research work.
What is the Principal Investigator (PI)?
This fish is an important and most widely used fish in research.
What is a zebrafish?
This agency serves as the principal means for people in the laboratory animal science field to communicate. There are 48 local branches across the country.
Animal Welfare Regulations (AWR) define the roles of the different individuals in the animal facility. Who administers the AWR?
What is the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)?
This organization prepared guidelines for the euthanasia of laboratory animals. Their 2020 published document is used to evaluate euthanasia methods in proposed research protocols.
What is the American Veterinary Medicine Association (AVMA)?
By monitoring the rats and room environment, the animal technician or project personnel helps eliminate these deviations from a research study.
What are variables?
One of the following is not a responsibility of the IACUC as defined by the Animal Welfare Act and the PHS Policy: A) Review research protocols, B) Act as a political action committee, C) Inspect animal facilities, D) Oversee the animal research program.
What is B), act as a political action committee?
Name the four (4) people required to be on the IACUC committee.
What is the lab animal vet, a research scientist, a nonscientist, and a person not associated with the institution?
Passed in 1873, this was the first Animal Welfare Law. It preceded the Animal Welfare Act by almost 100 years.
What is the 28 Hour Law?
The "3 R's" that apply to modifying research involving animals.
What is Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction?
This government agency fosters biomedical research by providing the largest amount of direct support.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
Abbreviated NABR, this political lobbying organization represents the scientific community in regard to legislation and regulations involving the use of laboratory animals.
What is the National Association for Biomedical Research?
This agency provides accreditation for animal facilities who submit to voluntary inspections. They conduct the inspections once every 3 years.
What is the Association for the Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AALAC International)?
The USDA annual report must be submitted by this date:
What is December 1st?
According to the AWR, at least 3 members are required on an IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee), who are they?
Who are the 1) Chair, 2) Veterinarian (with training or experience in care and management of the species being attended), 3) Non-affiliate (community member)?
Most research projects are funded by obtaining this from the Federal Government.
What is a grant?
The PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals applies to federally funded research projects. For an institution to comply with PHS Policy, this document must be signed and submitted.
What is the Animal Welfare Assurance of Compliance Statement?