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 Your IACUC can
suspend your project if it finds serious or continuing noncompliance
with PHS policy
or your institution's assurance or
deviations from the approved protocol or
the Guide
for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
If you have a subaward agreement, noncompliance at the subaward organization can also provoke a suspension. See the Subawards for Grants SOP for more information.
Your IACUC will convey its reasons for a suspension to the institutional
official for animal welfare, who will take corrective measures
and report the situation to OLAW.
OLAW can withdraw approval of your institution's assurance,
though this is extremely rare. Should this happen,
your institution would become ineligible for spending NIH funds on research activities involving
animals, and
NIAID may seek to recover its monies. NIH may allow expenditures for the maintenance and care of animals.
OLAW can also place restrictions on an institution's assurance until
compliance problems are fully resolved. OLAW always emphasizes corrective
rather than punitive actions and will only restrict or withdraw approval
of an assurance if an institution's efforts to correct its problems
are unsuccessful.
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