AALAS is an association of professionals that advances responsible laboratory animal care and use to benefit people and animals.
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Vaccination of animals against disease protects them from suffering. However, this comes with an animal welfare cost - the safety and efficacy of vaccines is assessed in experimental animals and the tests involved can cause significant pain and distress. There is an ethical dilemma in protecting one set of animals at the expense of others but implementation of the 3Rs can help to resolve this. The research animals department works with researchers involved in vaccine testing and regulators to promote the 3Rs in this important area.
Initiate activities that may lead to the immediate implementation of the 3Rs.
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A volume in American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
Other Resources
Procedures with Care Website by Newcastle University, NC3Rs and IAT, provides a series of resources to support the adoption of best practice for commonly used procedures in animal research.
The website is maintained by Norecopa. It covers all Three Rs, is in English and free of charge.
A celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the publication of The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique by W.M.S Russell and R.L. Burch. The film of this event, which featured some of the eminent scientists and researchers in the field of alternatives to animal testing, took place on November 22, 2019 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.