Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Comments.

OLAW and APHIS: Common Areas of Noncompliance.

The Director of the Compliance Oversight Division, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, NIH, and the Deputy Administrator of USDA/APHIS Animal Care discuss areas of noncompliance with PHS Policy and the AWA.

Noncompliance with Public Health Service (PHS) policy on humane care and use of laboratory animals: an exploratory analysis.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a major biomedical research-funding body in the United States. Approximately 40% of NIH-funded research involves experimentation on nonhuman animals (Monastersky, 2008). Institutions that conduct animal research with NIH funds must adhere to the Public Health Service (PHS) care and use standards of the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW, 2002a)....

Position Statement: "Functionally Appropriate Nonhuman Primate Environments" as an Alternative to the Term "Ethologically Appropriate Environments".

The American Society of Primatologists (ASP), the Association of Primate Veterinarians (APV), and the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) have come together to develop this position statement in which the term "functionally appropriate nonhuman primate environments" is proposed as a better descriptor and as an alternative to the previously used term, "ethologically appropriat...

Apology. Correction to: "Toward genuine rodent welfare: response to reviewer comments".

I-16: The Evolution of Morality and Implications for Animal Usage

The propensity to show moral behaviour has evolved in all animals living in complex societies as it promotes social stability. All major religions provide a structure for a moral code. The code is valuable in the societies where the religions have influence. The most important aspects of morality are the same in all countries. Because of their moral code, people consider that they have obligati...