f6098d8b__and_Use_of_Laboratory_Animals__Comments
[ID] 222 [Entry Date] 04/19/2011 at 08:05:31 PM [Affiliation] Organization [Organization Name] LSUHSC School of Medicine [Organization City and State] New Orleans, LA [Comments] 
Comment 1: The whole scale adoption of the "Guide to the Care and Use of Laboratory Research" is an Extremely Bad idea for the future of medical research. The Guide's regulations are burdensome without benefit to animal welfare or science. Just a couple of specific points include: 1) there is no evidence that using pharmaceutical grade drugs would improve animal welfare or science; 2) commercial pharmaceutical grade formulations make careful pharmacological research difficult as these are single concentration formulations, which makes manipulating dose and vehicle comparisons difficult while at the same time maintaining pharmaceutical grade standard. Only pharmacuerical companies will benefit from these "Guide" restrictions.
Listing of Public Comments on Proposed Adoption and Implementation of the Eighth Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals