Instructions & Guidelines

Instructions

• Instructions for Making Amendments to a Protocol
• Instructions for Adding Project Personnel to a Protocol
• Instructions for Searches to Alternatives for Animal Use
• Instructions for Rendering Carcasses
• Rationale for Numbers of Animals
• Breeding Colony Calculator

Guidelines

The following guidelines have been established by the University of Illinois. Researchers using animals in their research are expected to follow those guidelines pertinent to their studies. Exceptions to these guidelines must be scientifically justified and may be made by special request to the IACUC.

• Guidelines for the Transportation of Animals
• AWA Regulations for the Transport of Wild Animals
• Off-Campus Animal Use Oversight Guidelines
• Guidelines on Issuing Health Certificates for Animals Leaving UIUC Laboratory Animal Facilities
• Guidelines for Genotyping Mice and Rats (Approved 5/5/09)
• Responsibilities for PIs
• Important Information for Protocols that had FCR
• Keeping Records for Experiments with USDA Covered Species

External Guidelines

• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (2010)
• Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching, Third Edition, (2010)
• Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals (2008)
• Recognition and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals (2009)
• AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia (2007)
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook (2002)