Animal Care Committee
Approved ACC Policy
Animal Transportation
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Animal Care Committee Approved ACC Policy |
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In order to ensure a safe environment for both employees of the Health Center, and the laboratory animals, the ACC has implemented a policy regarding the holding of animals outside of the main CLAC animal facility in the Health Center.
1. Animals must be transported from the animal housing room to the PI laboratory in closed caging (either microisolator lids or soft bonnet type covers) where appropriate (e.g., rodent caging).
2. Animals may only be held in the PI laboratory for ≤12 hours if it is USDA-regulated species or ≤24 hours if it is any other species without prior ACC approval. Housing for longer periods of time requires scientific and/or medical justification and prior ACC approval.
3. Animals must be held in a laboratory room that has been listed on the PI's approved Animal Care and Use Protocol. In addition, if animals are to be kept unsupervised in the PI laboratory, the doors to the laboratory must be kept closed and locked.
4. Animals involved in experiments that use hazardous materials or organisms which are required to be housed in the PI laboratory are to be removed from CLAC facilities, transported to, and held in the PI laboratory in accordance with additional specific instructions in the safety protocol governing the hazardous work approved by the Biological Safety Officer and the ACC.
5. Animal caging (with or without animals) may NOT be placed, unsupervised, in the hallways.
Effective Dates: May 31, 2007 thru May 30, 2010
This policy has been approved by a majority vote of the Animal Care Committee
Members
Joseph Lorenzo, M.D., Chair, Animal Care Committee