Announcements

On Tuesday, December 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final ruling banning the use of powdered surgeon's gloves, powdered patient examination gloves, and the use of powder to don...

After receiving several requests, the Rodent Surgery and Post­ Operative Record (Notebook Size) and Rodent Surgery and Post­ Operative Record (Cage Card Size) appendices to the Guidelines on the...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has recently identified issues with documentation associated with the disposal procedures for Schedules I and II controlled substances used in research...

Starting in January 2017, the DEA will no longer be mailing a second renewal notification letter to controlled substance registrants. Registrants will now receive the second renewal reminder at the...

The Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) has begun working to standardize their semi­annual inspection schedule. In the past, the IACUC has conducted semi­annual inspections on a...

As part of ongoing efforts to relieve administrative burden on study teams, the Animal Care & Use Office has been working with ULAM Faculty Veterinarians to improve animal use protocols in the...

On Wednesday, December 7, members of the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine and the Refinement and Enrichment Advancements Laboratory (REAL) partnered with the American Association for Laboratory...

Several service areas in the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) will be closed or operating at limited capacity during the upcoming holiday season. Below is a list of operating schedules and...

To ensure the continued health and well-being of mice utilized in research at the University, and to remain consistent with federal standards governing animal use activities, the Policy on Mouse and...

All animals that are administered human-derived substances must now be housed under ABSL-2 conditions unless those substances have been documented to be free from blood-borne pathogens and other...