Know Your IACUC's Reporting Requirements

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At least once every 12 months your institution is required to submit a report to OLAW, signed by the institutional official for animal welfare and institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) chairperson. The report includes the following.

• Changes in the institution's program of animal care and use.
• Change of institutional official or IACUC membership.
• Dates when the IACUC conducted its semiannual program evaluations and facility inspections.
• Minority IACUC views, i.e., serious dissenting opinions attached to required reports.

OLAW now strongly encourages institutions to send in their annual reports by December 31.

Your institutional official for animal welfare must notify OLAW's Division of Compliance promptly at 301/496-7163 of any of the following.

• Serious or continuing noncompliance with PHS policy.
• Serious deviations from the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
• IACUC suspensions.

Your institution sends annual reports as well as follow-up reports of noncompliance, deviations, and IACUC suspensions to:

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
RKL1, Suite 360, MSC 7982
6705 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-7982 (Use this ZIP code for the U.S. Postal Service, including express mail.)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (Use this ZIP code for commercial carriers such as FedEx and UPS.)

Resources

• Basic resources for applications involving animals

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