Try the  Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) (used to be
OPRR's          Division of Animal Welfare). Web site
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/olaw.htm

Tim

Janet Holmberg wrote:

>
>
> I don't know if this will help any but this is the link to the Public
> Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
> http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/phspol.htm#principle
>
> This is their definition of animals:
> Any live, vertebrate animal used or intended for use in research,
> research training, experimentation, or biological testing or for
> related purposes.
>
> I'm on the IACUC at my university and we require protocols for work
> with any vertebrate animals.
>
> Janet Holmberg
> Proposal Services Specialist
> San Diego State University
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Peterson [mailto:xxxxxx@WINONA.MSUS.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:59 PM
> To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
> Subject: Animals in research
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a list of specific animals that are
> covered by the PHS regulations?
>
> I have some faculty "arguing" over the requirements for fish, snakes,
> birds
> and iguanas, and I'm not having much luck going through the regs and
> the
> Guide....
>
>
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>
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