f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 75 [Entry Date] 04/14/2011 at 06:39:26 PM [Affiliation] Self [Comments] 
Comment 1: I am VERY STRONGLY OPPOSED to adoption of the 8th edition of the Guide. Most important: there is NO Scientific Evidence that rodents will be SIGNIFICANTLY better off in terms of health and wellbeing with the proposed new caging guidelines. The increassed cost, which is therefore not justfied, will be enormous at a time when funding for research is decreasing. Our entire bioscience research enterprise is already in jeopardy; adoption of these proposed guidelines would further damage the entire enterprise.
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals