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Animal Care Committee

Approved ACC Policy
Modification Approvals

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Purpose

In order to comply with government regulations and to make the modification approval process as simple as possible for the primary investigators, the ACC has established a policy on modification approvals.

Action

  1. Request for modification goes to the program coordinator of the animal care committee.
     
  2. The request is posted in the shared folder and an email gets sent to the original primary reviewers of the protocol.


IF THE MODIFICATION IS MINOR  (e.g., addition of qualified personnel, addition of faculty collaborators, addition of another strain of the same animal species, small increase (<10%) in animal numbers, need to repeat an experiment, addition of sample collection times:

  1. Notification of the submission of the modification will be sent to the entire committee on Thursdays to allow everyone the chance- for the following Friday- to call for a full committee review of the protocol.  If no one calls for a full committee review AND the primary reviewers have approved the modification, the modification may be formally approved.
     
  2. The modification will remain on the agenda covering the request period for documentation purposes.
     
  3. It is the responsibility of the ACC members to review the modification folder for all modifications that will be on the monthly agenda.
     
  4. Any member of the ACC has the right to request a full-committee discussion regarding any modifications.
     
  5. For qualified personnel, the designated reviewer will be the ACC program administrator.

 

IF THE MODIFICATION IS MAJOR (e.g., change in purpose or specific aim of study, change in primary investigator, change of species, addition of USDA-regulated species, large increase (>10%) in animal numbers, addition of surgical procedures, addition of painful procedures)

  1. This will require full-committee review with a chance it must be resubmitted as a new protocol.

Any exception requires the approval of the ACC chair.

Effective Dates:  September 27, 2007 through September 26, 2010

 

This policy has been approved by a majority vote of the Animal Care Committee Members
Joseph Lorenzo, M.D., Chair, Animal Care Committee