The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) is encouraging institutions and their investigators to review new FAQs on the OLAW Web site.

The newly posted questions and answers, marked “new” to enable readers to locate and review them quickly among previously posted questions and answers, include:

• Are institutions required by FOIA to release information about their research, animal care programs, and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) members?
• What are PHS requirements for recording and reporting minority views?
• Is it acceptable to have different individuals named as principal investigator on the grant application and the IACUC protocol?

Other new FAQ topics include answers to questions on whether IACUCs are permitted to authorize the adoption of research animals as pets after the animals are no longer needed for study; what the institution’s responsibilities are in ensuring that animals are shipped safely and reporting adverse events that occur in shipment of animals to or from the institution; and how institutions and their IACUCs can best prepare for a pandemic.

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