Animal Ethics Summary
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- Animal Ethics
- Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations
- 3 R's: REPLACEME-NT, REDUCTION, REFINEMENT
- vital to understand biological systems in health and disease
- research is carried out only where no practicable alternative exists
- Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Animals Bred, Supplied or Used for Scientific Purposes
- ensure that the design, construction and function of the installations and equipment of licensed establishments - along with their staffing, care and practices - allow procedures to be carried out as effectively as possible.
- promote good animal welfare -> consistent, high quality care and accomodation
- support reliable scientific results by reduction of environmental variables.
- implement the 3R's - minimum degree of pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm
- not use protected or threatened species
- Caging conditions should take into account the social behaviour of the species. Caging in isolation may be stressful to social animals; overcrowding may also cause distress, and possible harm through aggression
- It is not always necessary to provide all species of animals with
ad libitum food intake, and, in some cases, this may even be
considered harmful; deprivation, on the other hand, can cause
distress to animals
- when arranging schedules of deprivation the experimenter should consider the animal’s normal eating and drinking habits and its metabolic requirements; a short period of deprivation for one species may be unacceptably long for another
- studying free-living animals should take precautions to minimise interference with individuals as well as the populations and eco-systems of which they are a part.
- Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations
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