LAWS, POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
Animal Welfare Act
Guide for the Care and Use of laboratory Animals
Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
- PDF: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/PHSPolicyLabAnimals.pdf (ftp://ftp.grants.nih.gov/IACUC/GuideBook.pdf)
Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, tutorial
HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, AND OTHER RESOURCES
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners
Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), USDA
Animal Welfare Information Center, USDA National Agricultural Library
ARENA/OLAW Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook (ARENA is the Applied Research Ethics National Association; OLAW is the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, NIH, Office of Extramural Research)
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
Bibliography on Alternatives to Animal Testing (National Library of Medicine)
Definition of Pain and Distress and reporting Requirements for Laboratory Animals: Proceedings of the Workshop Held June 22, 2000
Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
CAAT links to "Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web: Reduction, Refinement, Replacement:"
Laboratory Animal Management Association
http://www.lama-online.org/
NIH-Institutional Administrator's Manual for Laboratory Animal Care and Use
NIH/OLAW list of useful links
The Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science & Alternatives
Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Research Animals, Committee on Occupational Safety and Health in Research Animal Facilities, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council (1997)