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Animals in Laboratories
Chimpanzees in Research Get Shortchanged on Space
Animals in LaboratoriesOn April 4, 2014, in a Notice of Agency Decision, NIH announced its new requirement regarding the minimum floor space required for each of the remaining chimpanzees in NIH-supported research...
Cutting Down Transport Trauma for Animals in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesMoving animals in research around within an institution is a very common practice. Animals are moved from their housing rooms to laboratories or other locations, such as imaging or surgical...
Fired Whistleblower Fights On for Animals in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesIn November 2012, the industry journal Lab Animal published an extraordinary profile of licensed veterinary technologist Santina Caruso, entitled “Working with animals is ‘in her blood.’” Why was this feature extraordinary? Because...
Big Biotech Has Big Animal Care Problems: A Multitude of Citations by USDA
Animals in LaboratoriesSanta Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (SCBT), one of the world’s largest suppliers of antibodies derived from the blood of animals (goats and rabbits), has been cited by USDA veterinary inspectors for...
Sea Change Afloat for Chimpanzees in Laboratories
Animals in LaboratoriesMost of the 360 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-owned chimpanzees currently in laboratories should be permanently retired from research and moved to sanctuaries—which need to be expanded to accommodate the...
…as New Iberia Chimpanzees Set Sail for Sanctuary
Animals in LaboratoriesIn September, the NIH announced its plan to move 110 chimpanzees from the New Iberia Research Center—10 to Chimp Haven, a lush 200-acre sanctuary, and 100 to Texas Biomedical Research...
Can-Do Attitude Abounds at Social Housing of Laboratory Animal Conference
Animals in LaboratoriesCongratulations to the organizers of the Symposium on Social Housing of Laboratory Animals for an extremely informative meeting dedicated to improving the welfare of animals in research. The conference, held...
Class B Dealer Gets a Little Cage Time
Animals in LaboratoriesFormer random source Class B dealers Floyd and Susan Martin—owners of Chestnut Grove Kennel in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania—were back in court on August 26 for formal sentencing on charges of mail...
Anniversaries that Are Cause for Consternation
Animals in LaboratoriesHumanitarians have been waiting for more than a year for action on two egregious situations—both reported previously in the Winter 2013 AWI Quarterly—pending before the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant...
Compassion Makes a Difference
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI is pleased to announce publication of Compassion Makes a Difference, the third volume of discussions from the Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum (LAREF), edited by longtime AWI laboratory animal...