IACUC Policies, Guidelines, & SOPs
Policies
- Amendment Classifications and IACUC Review Processes
- Attending Veterinarian Consultation and Veterinary Best Practices
- Cage Compliance
- Camera, Video and Audio Recording of Research under IACUC Oversight
- Food or Water Restriction
- Housing of Rodents
- Occupational Health Surveillance for Personnel with Animal Exposure and/or Entering Vivarium
- Physical Restraint of Animals
- Post-Approval Monitoring (PAM)
- Pre-Research Site Inspection
- Reporting Requirements for Pilot Studies / Studies Involving Pain / Distress Category E
- Rodent Surgery
- Social Housing Multiple Species of Rodents in One Room
- Transfer of Animals Between Protocols
- Use of Nonpharmaceutical-Grade Compounds, Mixtures, and Expired Materials in Animals
- Visitors to the Vivarium
- Vivarium Injury Treatment and Reporting (Bites, Exposures, and Other Injuries)
Guidelines
- Euthanasia of Mice and Rats
- Field Research, Training, & Teaching Risk Mitigation
- In vivo Optical Imaging of Mice and Rats
- Rodent Body Condition Scoring
- Rodent Blood Collection
- Tumor Production in Rats and Mice
- Use of Embryos of Egg-Laying Vertebrate Species
- Guidelines for Nanoparticle Use (All Programs)