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Protocol submission

• ACUC Protocol Approval Application Form
• to submit: https://academic.csupomona.edu/animalcare
• Protocol Amendments (originally approved October 25, 2006)
• Memo to Biological Sciences Dept. grad students (July 4, 2006)

PHS Grants Policy

• What Investigators Need to Know About the Use of Animals (a brochure from OLAW intended to communicate to investigators their responsibilities under PHS Grants Policy and PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals)

Safety Related

• Risk Assessment Screening Questionnaire
• Health History Questionnaire
• Having safe fun with herps!
• General disaster plan applying to the lab animal facilities (updated August 3, 2012)
• Managing anesthetic gases, an article from ALN magazine (posted June 16, 2010)
• Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL), 5th edition. BMBL is produced by the CDC's Office of Health and Safety and the NIH to provide national guidelines to promote the safety and health of workers in biological and medical laboratories.
• Guideline on the use of MS-222 (tricaine methane sulfonate), including its adoption as a reagent grade anesthetic agent (approved July 13, 2012)

Proper Treatment of Laboratory Animals

• Contact a Cal Poly Pomona authority ("whistleblower" information)
• ACLAM Guidelines on Rodent and Rabbit Pain
• Animal Transportation Guidelines (posted April 22, 2009)
• A seminar from NIH/OLAW, "Ethics and IACUC responsibility", http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/educational_resources.htm

Alternatives to the Use of Laboratory Animals

• Tips for searching from the National Agricultural Library/USDA
• UC Davis web page
• Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)
• Virtual mouse necropsy

Cal Poly Pomona Policies/Guidelines Related to the Use of Laboratory Animals

• Animal Care and Use Handbook (rev. 2002)

• Animal Disposition (draft July 3, 2006)
• Privately-owned animals on campus, including use in classroom studies (approved August 14, 2007)
• Conditions under which the teaching lab in Building 92 can be used as a temporary holding facility (approved March 3, 2008)
• ACUC Guideline on the use and euthanasia procedures of chicken/avian embryos (approved February 9, 2012)

Training items

• Rabbit handling: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/category.asp?catID=19 (scroll down to the bottom of this page for a short video on rabbit handling) 
• AALAS Learning Library: http://www.aalaslearninglibrary.org/ (both free items and training needing a subscription)
• “Handle with care” DVD by the Institute of Animal Technology: http://www.iat.org.uk/
• Digital Resources for Veterinary Trainers: http://www.digires.co.uk/
• Procedures with Care tutorials: http://www.procedureswithcare.org.uk/
• The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE): http://www.jove.com/  (unique techniques which may be of interest to particular researchers, although not all of them involve animals)

Additional materials

• "Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) for the use of wild mammals in Research"  RS Sikes, WL Gannon, and the ASM ACUC, published 2011
• U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration
• Guidelines for Use of Live Amphibians and Reptiles in Field and Laboratory Research (second edition­revised by Herpetological Animal Care and Use Committee [HACC] of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists [ASIH])
• The Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching is a publication of  the Federation of Animal Science Societies (fass@assochq.org).  It is available (as a PDF) for download from FASS or by clicking the link here.
• updated USDA animal care policies:  www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/policy.php
• USDA animal welfare inspection guide: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/inspection_guide.shtml
• Links to topics on the OLAW website, including ethics, organizations, government documents, publications, and other resources.