f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 308 [Entry Date] 04/20/2011 at 07:58:15 PM [Affiliation] Self [Comments] 
Comment 1: NO, it should not adopt it. the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals is a clear example of over-regulation. The issue of a new guide was considered and deemed unnecessary a while back, yet here we have a new draft. Furthermore this guide seeks to empower animal investigation committees that have proven much easier to infiltrate by animal rights activists. Often our only recourse to sanity has been the federal regulations. At the very least it seems to me you should have a broad and extensive consultation with animal researchers to fully consider the consequences of these regulations vis a vis their potential benefits. The process up to now seems arbitrary and unnecessarily rushed. Comment 2: No, there should be no seminannual program and facility evaluation using the eighth edition of the guide
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals