f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 59 [Entry Date] 04/13/2011 at 08:21:18 AM [Affiliation] Self [Comments] 
Comment 1: The new Guide's "should" level recommendations for behavioral research are alarmingly naive, anthropomorphic, and have no basis in science. For example, the "shoulds" about diet restriction have no basis in science, and they ignore both the well documented health and well-being effects of moderate dietary restriction and the fact that there is no evidence that such regimens produce anything approximating chronic distress. Comment 2: The recommendations about the use of pharmaceutical grade drugs for pharmacology research are not simply cumbersome, they promote bad science. Also of note is the complete absence of any evidence whatsoever that health and welfare of animals have been compromised by the use of research grade drugs (i.e., pure and in a known vehicle that is usually without effects of its own).
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals