Contents

• About the Animal Welfare Information Center Bulletin
  

• The Triple A Approach to Ensuring Animal Welfare

• Strategies for Providing Interventional Nursing Care

• Congress In Session

• ANIMAL WELFARE ISSUES: Responsible Care And Health Maintenance Of Fish In Commercial Aquaculture
  • Finfish Aquaculture Classifications
    • Consumer use
    • Environmental requirements
  • Production Systems
    • Pond Culture
    • Intensive Culture
  • Fish And Their Environment
    • Sensory Reception and Response
    • Environmental Stress and Disease
  • Responsible Management
    • Stocking Rates
    • Water Quality
    • Nutrition and Feeding
    • Physical Disturbances
    • Handling Fish
    • Health Management
    • Disease Prevention
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References

• Multi-language Film Features State-of-the-art Alternatives for Education

• Humane Society of the United States Pain & Distress Initiative

• AALAS Certification Exam Grant Program

• Alternatives Methods Databases: Internet Resources That Are More Than Links to Other Sites
  • Alternatives to Skin Irritation Testing in Animals
  • Altweb
  • Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)
  • AVAR Alternatives in Education Database
  • Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
  • Compilation of Literature on the Assessment of Animal Welfare and Animal Distress
  • ECVAM : The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods
    
  • Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)
  • Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
  • Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM)
  • The Norwegian Reference Centre for Laboratory Animal Science & Alternatives
  • NORINA (A Norwegian Inventory of Alternatives)
  • Information on Alternatives Databases
  • University of California Center for Animal Alternatives

• EPA, OSHA and CPSC Accept Non-Animal System for Screening Chemicals - Skin Corrosiveness

• Office of Extramural Research (OER) Guidance Regarding Reduction of Regulatory Burden in Laboratory Animal Welfare

• National Animal Welfare Education Workshop Program

• Name Change for NIH, OPRR, Division of Animal Welfare

• NIH Meeting On Rat Model Priorities

• USDA News
  • Beagles Available For Adoption From USDA National Detector Dog Training Center
  • Federal Agencies Move Forward On Bison And Cattle Protection Plan
  • United States Department of Agriculture Position Statement: Large Wild and Exotic Cats Make Dangerous Pets

• International News
  • [New Zealand] Animal Welfare Act Heralds New Era
  • A new guide on how to care for animals in the classroom has been launched.
  • Edinburgh Zoo wins 1999 UFAW Zoo Animal Welfare Innovation Award for Penguin Cone Feeder

• APHIS Animal Care Update
  • Policy #29 -- Farm Animals Used for Nonagricultural Purposes -- February 11, 2000
  • Field Study Definition Revised in Animal Welfare Act
  • USDA Developing Emergency Plan for Pets in Disasters
  • Strategic Direction for the Animal Care Program

• Animal Management in Disasters

• Healthy Animals Now Online

• Announcements

  Meetings

  • International Course on Laboratory Animal Science
    
  • Measuring Behavior 2000: 3rd International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research
    

  Publications, Newsletters, Books, Models and Multimedia

  • Resources for Crisis Management in Zoos and Other Animal Care Facilities
    
  • Genetic Engineering and Animal Welfare: Preparing for the 21^st Century
    
  • Handbook of Chlorination and Alternative Disinfectants
    
  • Proceedings of the 4th National Symposium on Biosafety: Working Safely with Research Animals
    
  • Human Anatomy Atlases on CD-ROM
    
  • Orthopedic Teaching Models
    
  • PVC Rat
    
  • Veterinary Drug Handbook, Third Edition, CD-ROM
    
  • The Virtual Heart
    

  From the National Agricultural Library

  • History on the Internet: A Finding Aid
    
  • Guide to Historical Research at the National Agricultural Library: The General Collection (SRB 94-02)
    
  • Proposed rule for NAL Fees for Loans and Copying (Federal Register: August 16, 1999)

  Available on the World Wide Web

  • Animal Diseases
    
  • Biotechnobase
    
  • Feral Cat Coalition
    
  • Government of Canada Internet Addresses
    
  • Guidelines for the Welfare of Animals in Experimental Neoplasia
    
  • Journal of Pharmacology/Experimental Therapeutics
    
  • Model Organisms for Biomedical Research
    
  • National Registration Authority
    
  • Risk Analysis Tools
    

• "Meeting the Information Requirements of the Animal Welfare Act" Workshop

The Animal Welfare Information Center
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Ave.
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