f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 504 [Entry Date] 04/25/2011 at 03:47:35 PM [Affiliation] Self [Comments] 
Comment 1: This new version of the Guide absolutely should not be adopted. Many changes from the previous version are substantial, prohibitive and completely unjustified. As one example the required use of pharmaceutical grade chemicals is based on nothing, is completely unnecessary, will stifle science, will end careers because of undue burden, and will eventually cost peoples' lives. Additional restrictions on mild food restriction are similarly without reasonable basis and read like they were written by a bureaucrat who doesn't understand the purpose and benefit of basic scientific research. More study and justification are necessary before the new rules in the new Guide are adopted, and frankly they should never be. Comment 2: It seems to me that OLAW should allow a minimum of four more years for institutional compliance with the new Guide to allow for the collection of relevant data (see comment 1).
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals