Animal Welfare Information Center Newsletter, Spring 1997, Vol. 8 No. 1

APHIS - Animal Care Update

USDA's Animal Care Policy Manual Goes Online

The policies listed include:

• Policy #1 - Denial of AWA License Applications
  
• Policy #2 - Submission of Traveling Exhibitor Itinerary
  
• Policy #3 - Veterinary Care
  
• Policy #4 - Use of Leased Animals by Licensees
  
• Policy #5 - Licensing of Exotic Animal Auction Markets
  
• Policy #6 - Space and Exercise Requirements for Traveling Exhibitors
  
• Policy #7 - Group classifications for Nonhuman Primates
  
• Policy #8 - Guidelines for the Confiscation and Destruction of Animals
  
• Policy #9 - Barrier Facility, SPF Colony Inspection
  
• Policy #10 - Licensing and Registration of Producers of Antibodies, Sera and/or Other Animal Parts and Pregnant Mare Urine (PMU)
  
• Policy #11 - Painful/Distressful Procedures
  
• Policy #12 - Written Narrative for Alternatives to Painful Procedures
  
• Policy #13 - Microchip Implants
  
• Policy #14 - Major Survival Surgery, Single vs. Multiple Procedures
  
• Policy #15 - IACUC membership
  
• Policy #16 - Dealers Selling Surgically Altered Animals to Research
  
• Policy #17 - Annual Report for Research Facilities
  
• Policy #18 - Health Certificate for Dogs, Cats, and Nonhuman Primates
  
• Policy #19 - Tattoo Identification of Dogs and Cats
  
• Policy #20 - Identification of Puppies Less than 16 Weeks of Age

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