Contents

• About the Animal Welfare Information Center Newsletter

• Adoption of Research Animals
  

• Congress In Session

  H.R. 696	H.R. 594	H.R. 453	S. 39	H.R. 39	H.R. 226
  H.R. 374	H.R. 173	H.R. 4249	S. 2114	H.R. 2508

• Environmental Enrichment for Dairy Calves and Pigs
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Group Housing and Environmental Enrichment Devices for Dairy Calves
    
  • Is Outdoor Housing an Enriched Environment for Pigs?
    
  • Where do we go from here?
    
  • Acknowledgements
    
  • References

• The Wisconsin Gnawing Stick

• USDA Clamps Down on Pet Theft

• APHIS Animal Care Update
  
  • The Animal Welfare Act -- Who needs to comply?
    
  • USDA's Animal Care Goes Online
    
  • New Policy Statements or Guidelines
    
  • Animal Welfare Act Violations and Settlements on the WWW

• Upcoming Meetings

• AWIC Introduces CARE CD

• Announcements
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Information Directory on the Internet
    
  • Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD)
    
  • International Course on Laboratory Animal Science: Utrecht
    
  • And speaking of Utrecht....The Netherlands Centre Alternatives to Animal Use
    
  • American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) 1997 Forum
    
  • Congressional Research Service Reports Available
    
  • Dissection Alternatives Available
    
  • New Primatology Directory Published
    
  • An Interactive Health and Science Calendar for 1997
    
  • IATA Live Animals Regulations (23rd edition, effective October 1, 1996)
    
  • Ethics and Animal Research Course
    
  • Available on the World Wide Web
    
    • National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)
      
    • Norwegian Inventory of Audiovisuals (NORINA)
      
    • University of California at Davis Center for Alternatives
      
    • Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
      
    • Global Electronic Reporting of Emerging Diseases

• Grants
  • Fellowships at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
    
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
    
  • Alternatives Research and Development Foundation (ARDF)
    
  • Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.
    
  • Errata

• National Animal Welfare Education Workshops for 1997

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

• Book Review: AATA Manual for the Transport of Live Animals by Road"

• VETBASE

The Animal Welfare Information Center
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351

Phone: (301) 504-6212
FAX: (301) 504-7125
E-mail: awic@nal.usda.gov

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