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Guidelines for Use of Fluid Regulation for Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research ( PDF | 171 KB )

Association of Primate Veterinarians.

These guidelines were developed "...to provide information to researchers, veterinarians and institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs) on how to approach fluid regulation in a manner consistent with animal health and welfare while not compromising data collection."

OLAW Position Statement 4) Food and Fluid Restriction/Use of Preferred Foods

National Institutes of Health (NIH). Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW).

OLAW prepared Position Statements in response to public concerns after Adoption of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition.

Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research (2003) ( PDF | 5.4 MB )

National Research Council.

Discussion of food and fluid regulation starts on page 49.

Guidelines for Diet Control in Behavioral Animal Studies ( 140 | KB )

National Institutes of Health. Office of Animal Care and Use (OACU).

Guidelines for the proper use of diet control in behavioral studies in which the investigator must control food or fluid consumption.

Refining food and fluid control in behavioural neuroscience with macaques

National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs).

Guidelines for refinement of procedures on the use of food and fluid control in behavioral neuroscience experiments with macaques.