f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 522 [Entry Date] 04/27/2011 at 07:34:18 AM [Affiliation] Self [Organization Name] University of Maryland School of Medicine [Organization City and State] Baltimore Maryland [Comments] 
Comment 1: Adopting the Guide, will slow medical research and make advances in critical disease research prohibitive. Current grant funding is significantly low. In addition, NIH investigator grants are being cut and therefore budgets are going to be even tighter. The current rules are more than adeque at ensuring animal welfare and its is unclear how the new rules will improve them.
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals