f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 86 [Entry Date] 04/15/2011 at 10:46:43 AM [Affiliation] Organization [Organization Name] University of Maryland School of Medicine [Organization City and State] Baltimre, MD [Comments] 
Comment 1: I strongly support the need to provide suitable living conditions for animals in our care, but I also believe that the proposed changes will produce only a slight enhancement of animal welfare at an extremely high cost (i.e., the cost/benefit ratio is not favorable). I therefore hope that some of these proposed changes will not be adopted. In particular rules relating to mice that would require no more than 4 adult mice per cage (instead of five), and a rule stating that each female litter would need to be housed individually instead of permitting a second litter to be present prior to weaning.
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals