Education and Training in Laboratory Animal Science & Welfare

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• FELASA conference proceedings Download

The Organising Committee of the International Conference on Humane Endpoints in Animal Experiments for Biomedical Research have published a document containing all the details of their 1998 conference in The Netherlands.

As the document is quite extensive, it has been broken down into several downloadable PDFs below:

• Preface Download
• The biomedical sciences and the need for less-inhumane animal procedures (M.Balls) Download
• Humane endpoints in animal experimentation for biomedical research: ethical, legal and practical aspects (D.B.Morton) Download
• The OECD Test Guidelines Programme and animal welfare concern: how to avoid major animal suffering (H.B.W.M.Koëter) Download
• The European Pharmacopoeia and humane endpoints (P.Castle) Download
• Human neonates and pain (J.Bouwmeester, M.van Dijk2 & D.Tibboel) Download
• Criteria for humane endpoints (J.Richmond) Download
• Physiological and ethological aspects of the assessment of pain, distress and suffering (W.Scharmann) Download
• An applied approach to the assessment of severity (H.R.P.Jones, J.Oates & B.A.Trussell) Download
• Practical use of distress scoring systems in the application of humane endpoints (M.H.Lloyd & S.E.Wolfensohn) Download
• Relating criteria for humane endpoints to objectives (D.J.Fry) Download
• Remote monitoring of experimental endpoints in animals
  using radiotelemetry and bioimpedance technologies (L.B.Kinter & D.K.Johnson) Download
• Using telemetry to study the effect of protectors on
  doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in freely-moving mice (K.Kramer, F.A.A.van Acker, S.A.B.E.van Acker, J.A.Grimbergen, W.J.F.van der Vijgh & A.Bast) Download
• Humane endpoints and the importance of training (J.Hau) Download
• Retrospective evaluation of clinical signs, pathology and
  related discomfort in chronic studies (J.M.Fentener van Vlissingen, M.H.M.Kuijpers, E.C.M.van Oostrum, R.B.Beems & J.E.van Dijk) Download
• Use of clinical signs in efficacy testing of erysipelas vaccines (S.Johannes, U.Rosskopf-Streicher, D.Hausleithner, H.Gyra & K.Cussler) Download
• The evaluation of humane endpoints in pertussis vaccine
  potency testing (C.F.M.Hendriksen, B.Steen, J.Visser, K.Cussler, D.Morton & F.Streijger) Download
• Endotoxin in porcine vaccines: clinical signs and safety aspects (M.Krug & K.Cussler) Download
• Refinement in vaccine research at CAMR (S.G.P.Funnell, G.Hall, K.Reddin & A.Robinson) Download
• Determining body temperature using a microchip implant system (Will.J.Kort, I.M.Hekking-Weijma, M.T.ten Kate, V.Sorm & R.van Strik) Download
• Clinical signs predicting imminent death in a rat model of
  invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (M.J.Becker, S.de Marie & I.A.J.M.Bakker-Woudenberg) Download
• The need to refine the notion of reduction (A.Kornerup Hansen, P.Sandùe, O.Svendsen, B.Forsman & P.Thomsen) Download
• The re-use of animals for research - a humane endpoint? (J.M.Fentener van Vlissingen) Download

• FELASA working Group report on ethical review principles and practice in Europe Download
• Ethics committee recommendations for laboratory animals in private research in France Download

• GV-Solas guidelines for specification of animals and husbandry methods when reporting Download
• Guidelines for reporting results from experiments on fish Download

• Working party report on euthanasia part 1 Download
• Working party report on euthanasia part 2 Download
• Newcastle consensus meeting on carbon dioxide euthanasia of laboratory animals Download

• FELASA report on Pain and distress in laboratory rodents and lagomorphs Download
• FELASA report on Standardisation of enrichment Download
• Refinement in Mouse husbandry Download
• Refinements in rabbit husbandry Download
• Refinements in laboratory bird husbandry and procedures Download
• Advancing Refinement of laboratory animal use Download
• Removal of blood from laboratory mammals and birds (Refinement) Download
• Saphenous vein puncture for blood sampling of Mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, ferret, mink. Download
• Refinement of blood sampling from the sublingual blood vein of rats Download
• Orbital sinus blood sampling in rats as performed by different animal technicians: the influence of technique and expertise Download
• Refining procedures for the administration of substances Download
• Refinements in telemetry procedures Download
• Husbandry refinements for rats, mice, dogs and nonhuman primates used in telemetry procedures Download
• Refining dog husbandry and care Download

• Refinement and Reduction in production of genetically modified mice Download

• FELASA recommedations for the health monitoring in rodent and rabbit colonies in breeding and experimental units Download
• FELASA recommendations for the health monitoring of breeding colonies and experimental units of cats, dogs and pigs Download
• Guidelines for health and welfare monitoring of fish used in research Download
• FELASA guidance paper for the accreditation of laboratory animal diagnostic Laboratories Download
• FELASA health monitoring of nonhuman primate colonies Download
• GV-Solas report on implications of infectious agents on results of animal experiments Download

• FELASA category A (caretakers) and C (researchers) educational guidelines Download
• FELASA category B (animal technicians) educational guidelines Download
• FELASA category D (laboratory animal specialists) educational guidelines Download
• FELASA recommendations for the accreditation of education and training Download
• Ethics education Download