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Animal Welfare Concerns

Animal Welfare Concerns. Experience has shown that most concerns involve misunderstanding, confused communication. Animal welfare concerns can often be resolved by providing/clarifying information to the people involved. Environmental Enrichment Plan.

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Animal Welfare Concerns

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  1. Animal Welfare Concerns Experience has shown that most concerns involve misunderstanding, confused communication. Animal welfare concerns can often be resolved by providing/clarifying information to the people involved.

  2. Environmental Enrichment Plan • Primedica is committed to ensuring that all our laboratory animals have an environment that is conducive to their well being. Our plan addresses: • Social Grouping • Environmental Enrichment • Exercise • Special Considerations • Restraint Devices • Exemption

  3. Bioexclusion = Closed Environment Preventing unknown influences from impacting animals. Goals met through managing: Facility Design and Utilization Rooms Caging Protective Clothing Personnel Traffic Flow Animal and Equipment Traffic Flow Diagnostics/Monitoring Pest Control Vendor Management Veterinary Care and Health Assessment Mechanical Failure Contingency Animal with known health status

  4. Clinical Research • US Development Compared to Third World Development • Informed Consent • Who Has Rights?Who's Rights Are More Important?

  5. Success Stories of Animal Research Remember This! • Vaccines • Smallpox • Polio • Hepatitis B • Medical Innovations • Blood Pressure Measurement • Cardiac Pacemaker • Ultrasound • AIDS • Potential efficacy in live attenuated vaccine and viral protein vaccine

  6. Some Questions. . . • Why do we do Toxicology Testing? What are some of the side effects? • Why do most studies end in euthanasia? • Why do some compounds return to preclinical testing? • Why do we test cosmetics?

  7. “Hey, are you torturing dogs in there?” • PR Role Model • Just walk away. • “Who Are You?Are you with anorganization?” • “I am not the correct person to talk to. I will get someone for you.”

  8. “So, what do you do for a living?” • “We test drugs, biologics, and medical devices to assure they are safe and effective.” Contract Research Organization

  9. Unease About Your Job Remember This! People, not regulations, ensure animal welfare. “It’s A Dog’s Life”

  10. Animal Abuse Defined Remember This! • May be any procedure that deviates from our SOPs and protocols • Antagonizing/Aggravating animals • Screaming or yelling • Playing loud music • Shaking cages • Using threatening gestures • Physical Abuse • Excessive force in animal handling • Kicking • Hitting • Shaking • Tossing animals into cages • Illness Not Reported to the Clinical Vet

  11. Your Animal Welfare Responsibilities • Prevent • Recognize • Report

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