Policy & Guidelines

 Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes

AEEC Operating Procedures

Alternatives to the Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes

Alternatives to the Use of S8 Drugs in Animal Studies and their Possible Replacement

ANU Animal Care Emergency Procedures

Environmental Enrichment and Animals Used for Scientific Purposes

Monoclonal Antibody Production

Polyclonal Antibody Production

Repeated Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes

Procedure for Handling Serious Adverse Events - Animal

Serious Adverse Events - Animal Ethics

Procedures for Safety in Animal Houses

Victorian Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Laboratory Mice, Rats, Guinea Pigs and Rabbits

Standard Operating Procedures

Mouse Clinical Monitoring Score Sheets

  Tail Biopsy of Mice

  Intravenous (IV) Injection

  Rodent Housing Parameters At ANU

  Blood Collection from the Retro-orbital Sinus

  Euthanasia of Rodents

  Autopsy of Mice

  Management of Severe Developmental Defects in Mice

  Intraperitoneal Injection in Mice

  Safe Rodent Transport on Campus

  Wes Whitten Building - Rodent Entry and Exit Procedures

  Wes Whitten Building SPF1 - Personnel Entry/Exit Procedures

  Wes Whitten Building SPF2 - Personnel Entry/Exit Procedures

 

AEEC Forms

Application for a new strain or hybrid of a genetically modified animal

Study Completion/Discontinuation Report

Annual Review Report

 

Useful Guides

The Use of Laboratory Animals at ANU

Environmental Enrichment in Rodents

ARIES Animal Ethics

 

Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns

Animal welfare concerns may arise from

• departures from the humane and ethical treatment of animals in animal holding rooms;
• production rooms or the laboratory

and may constitute a breach of the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes.

Please report animal welfare concerns to the Executive Officer, Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee.

Dr Simon Bain
Executive Officer, Animal Experimentation Ethics Committe
E: Simon.Bain@anu.edu.au
T: +61 2 6125 0422

Please be assured that concerns will be treated confidentially and sympathetically.  Any such concerns will be discussed at a full meeting of the Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee.  The latter includes animal welfare and community representatives.