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INFORMATION & INSTRUCTIONS FOR IACUC APPLICATIONS
3. ANIMAL CATEGORIES
Per federal regulations, experimental procedures are categorized
according to their potential for causing pain or distress to animal
subjects. You must designate categories for all study animals.
| USDA Category |
Definition |
| C |
Animals upon which teaching, research, experiments, or test were conducted
involving no pain, distress, or use of pain-relieving drugs. |
| D |
Animals upon which experiments, teaching, research, surgery, or tests
were conducted involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals
and for which appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs
were used. |
E
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Animals upon which teaching, experiments, research, surgery or tests
were conducted involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals
and for which the use of appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing
drugs would have adversely affected the procedures, results, or interpretation
of the teaching, research, experiments, surgery, or tests. (An explanation
of the procedures producing pain or distress in these animals and the
reasons such drugs were not used must be attached to the USDA Annual
Report). |
An animal is counted:
* only once per year, even if it was used in more than one Protocol
* in the most painful/distressful Category, if used in more than one category |
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