Research Protections Program
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Policies and Procedures
The IACUC shall establish policies and procedures to facilitate the execution of its responsibilities. These are for IACUC members as well as for PI's and the Research Staff.
Purpose
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Form (click on link) |
Overview and guide to the
UMKC Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee's responsibilities,
procedures, and functions
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Semiannually, the IACUC is to inspect animal facilities and animal use areas (laboratories), and review the institutional animal care and use programs |
Semiannual Facilities Inspection
Checklist |
Exclusion list means that when mice are
acquired that they may not enter UMKC core
animal facilities until they can be
demonstrated to be free of these agents. |
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Checklist to help IACUC members during the review process. |
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Occupational Health & Safety Program (OHSP) for Personnel Whose UMKC Duties Involve Substantial Animal Contact
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The investigation of
concerns about animal care and use is an
important function of the IACUC in
assuring compliance with standards. UMKC
and the IACUC encourage reporting of
concerns. It is UMKC's policy to
prohibit discrimination or reprisal
against anyone for reporting violations
of standards or deviations from policies
or approved protocols and procedures for
animal care and use.
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Appropriate techniques, equipment, and agents for performing appropriate procedures to ensure humane care and use of laboratory animals. |
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Public Health Service and USDA Polices
require that IACUCs determine that methods
of euthanasia in proposed research projects
are consistent with the American Veterinary
Medical Association (AVMA) Panel on
Euthanasia recommendations. |
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The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
(OLAW) at the NIH holds that methods of
euthanasia will be consistent with the
Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia |
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Toe clipping is a method for identification |
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For the production of genetically altered
rodents, it is often necessary to sample
tissue for DNA analysis. Commonly, the tip
of the tail is sampled for this purpose. |
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Study Area Requirements for Housing outside
the Animal Facility |
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All animals will be housed and transported according to space requirements set by the USDA and guidelines in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and follow the SOPs of the LARC - "Animal Transportation” |
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The committee members may be exposed, either verbally, visually, or in writing, to material, data, discoveries, ideas and other information, which may be considered Proprietary, Confidential, or Privileged. This policy establishes a mechanism by which the members and consultants are duly responsible for legally protecting the University’s faculty and business research and teaching/training interests. |
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Both the AWRs and PHS Policy state that no IACUC member "may participate in the IACUC review or approval of an activity in which that member has a conflicting interest, (e.g. is personally involved in the activity) except to provide information requested by the IACUC”. |
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USDA policy #3 on Pharmaceutical-Grade Compounds in Research |
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| General Inhalation Anesthesia Machine/Vaporizer/Waste Gas Maintenance/CO2 Euthanasia Machine and Calibration | |
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This policy applies to studies that use rodents and that require death, other than by euthanasia, as a necessary endpoint for the hypothesis being tested. |