Links

Here on this page we have compiled all interesting links to information for you.

Laboratory animal societies

Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) American Association For Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV) European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ECLAM) European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde - Society For Laboratory Animal Science (GV-SOLAS) Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Swiss Society for Laboratory Animal Science (SGV) The Norwegian Reference Center for Laboratory Animal Science & Alternatives

Institute

Institute of Animal Technology (IAT) Institute of Laboratory Animal Science of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna Institute for Animal Welfare and Behavior (pets, laboratory animals and horses), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Animal welfare

Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare e.V. Basel Declaration Society

Government and administration

Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety Central Office for the Registration and Evaluation of Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Experiments (ZEBET) https://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/index_en.htm

Laws

Animal Welfare Act Ordinance on the Protection of Animals Used for Experimental or Other Scientific Purposes (Animal Welfare Ordinance - TierSchVersV) DIRECTIVE 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council

Commercial breeders

Jackson Laboratories Charles River Ellegaard Envigo Janvier Taconic

Databases/information/tools

http://www.informatics.jax.org http://www.biomath.info/power/ http://powerandsamplesize.com/Calculators/ http://www.gpower.hhu.de/ http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/PowerSampleSize http://statpages.info/ http://www.isogenic.info/index.html

Consortia

R2N Severity Assessment ECGnoto Complex Trait Consortium (CTC) Intestinal Microbiota Animal Research Center

Recommendations

FELASA guidelines for the refinement of methods for genotyping genetically-modified rodents (2013) Guidelines for accreditation of health monitoring programs and testing laboratories (2010) Guidance paper for accreditation of laboratory animal diagnostic laboratories (1999) Guidelines for continuing education for persons involved in animal experiments (2010) Guidelines for education of specialists in LAS: category D (1999) Guidelines for the production and nomenclature of transgenic rodents (2007) Guidelines for the veterinary care of laboratory animals (2008) Recommendations for accreditation of laboratory animal science education and training (2002) Recommendations for education and training: Category A - Revision (2010) Recommendations for education and training: Categories A and C (1995) Recommendations for education and training: Categories B (2000) Recommendations for health monitoring of cats, dogs and pigs (1998) Recommendations for health monitoring of experimental units of calves, sheep and goats (2000) Recommendations for health monitoring of non-human primate colonies (1999) FELASA recommendations for the health monitoring of mouse, rat, hamster, guinea pig and rabbit colonies in breeding and experimental units (2014)

Why animal testing

Basel Declaration VBIO information on animal experimental research Animal experiments in the Leibniz Association The initiative "Understanding animal testing" (TVV)