Animal Care Committees
Synonyms
Animal Care Committee
Animal Care and Use Committees
Animal Ethics Committee
Animal Ethics Committees
Committee, Animal Care
Committee, Animal Ethics
Committees, Animal Care
Committees, Animal Ethics
Ethics Committee, Animal
Ethics Committees, Animal
IACUC
IACUCs
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees
Institutional committees established to protect the welfare of animals used in research and education. The 1971 NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals introduced the policy that institutions using warm-blooded animals in projects supported by NIH grants either be accredited by a recognized professional laboratory animal accrediting body or establish its own committee to evaluate animal care; the Public Health Service adopted a policy in 1979 requiring such committees; and the 1985 amendments to the Animal Welfare Act mandate review and approval of federally funded research with animals by a formally designated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
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