Manuscripts reporting use of a euthanasia method (s) classified as unacceptable by the American Veterinary Medical Association or use of an anesthesia method (s) that is widely prohibited (e.g., chloral hydrate, ether, chloroform) must include at the time of initial submission, scientific justification for use in the specific study design, as well as confirmation of approval for specific use from
their animal research ethics committee.
Not exact matches
The final rules, adopted late last month, would instead place primary responsibility in the hands of
animal ethics committees at individual universities and institutes, avoiding a bottleneck that scientists feared could stifle
research.
Public Responsibility in Medicine and
Research holds national conferences on issues relating to Institutional Review Boards, Institutional
Animal Care and Use
Committees, and
ethics education, among many other topics.
To develop and enforce tighter regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the
Animal Welfare Act, should establish an
ethics committee specifically for biomedical
research on chimps.
Just like in human
research,
animal research is governed by local
animal rights
ethics committees that monitor ethical use of
animals in
research.