Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees

• U.S. Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research, and Training (PDF | 63KB)
• USDA, Animal Care: Animal Welfare Act and Regulations
• USDA, APHIS, Animal Care Policy Manual
• Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Eighth Edition (PDF | 1.2MB)

All USDA Animal Care Policies are available at: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/downloads/Animal%20Care%20Policy%20Manual.pdf.

• Policy #3: Veterinary Care *Updated March 2014
• Policy #11: Painful and Distressful Procedures
• Policy #12: Consideration of Alternatives to Painful/Distressful Procedures
• Policy #14: Major Survival Surgery; Dealers Selling Surgically-Altered Animals to Research
• Policy #15: Institutional Official and IACUC Membership
• Policy #17: Regulation of Agricultural Animals

United States Department of Agriculture, Research, Education, and Economics, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Animal Care and Use Policies

• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (130.4v2) (PDF | 360 KB)

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

• The Care and Use of Laboratory Animals in DOD Programs (PDF | 817 KB)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration

• Use of Animals in Research (VHA Handbook 1200.07)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• 14 CFR 1232 - Care and Use of Animals in the Conduct of NASA Activities

• Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching Federation of Animal Science Societies
• SOT Guiding Principles in the Use of Animals in Toxicology Society of Toxicology
• Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioral Research and Teaching (PDF|231 KB) Animal Behavior Society
• Ethical Treatment of Animals in Applied Animal Behaviour Research International Society for Applied Ethology
• Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research The Ornithological Council
• Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the Use of Wild Mammals in Research(PDF|180 KB) American Society of Mammalogists
• Guidelines for the Use of Fishes in Research(PDF|729 KB) American Fisheries Society
• Guidelines for Use of Live Amphibians and Reptiles in Field Research (PDF|92 KB) American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Animals in Research American Psychological Association
• Guidelines for animal surgery in research and teaching AVMA Panel on Animal Surgery in Research and Teaching, and the ASLAP (American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners)

A free, online course primarily intended for persons sitting on an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) who conduct mandated inspections of animal facilities for compliance with U.S. regulatory standards.

Commentary by OLAW in Lab Animal.