In France, legislation (principally the decree of October 19, 1980) requires an institutional and project license before testing on vertebrates is carried out. I support efforts to phase out the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics in animal agriculture. The museum is home to dozens of polydactyl cats, the progeny of a cat that Ernest Hemingway was given as a pet when he lived there during the 1930s. Following a complaint by a museum visitor, the USDA visited the museum and in October 2003, determined that the Museum was an animal exhibitor subject to regulation under the AWA because the Museum exhibited the cats for the cost of an admission fee, and the cats were used in promotional advertising. The museum challenged on several grounds the USDA’s authority in the case, noting that the Hemingway cats do not have an effect on interstate commerce sufficient to merit federal regulation. Under USDA regulations, the museum is required to obtain a USDA exhibitor’s license, give each cat a tag for identification purposes, provide additional resting surfaces within their existing enclosures, and introduce one of several specified improvements required to ensure the cats remain contained to the museum’s grounds. Justice of the Peace Precinct One, Place Two is one of the busiest courts in the state.

One of many quotes painted on the walls at CAP. Strays or lost animals also find their way to CAP. The Annual “Home for the Holidays” Share the Love Adopt-a-thon, Sponsored by Citizens for Animal Protection (CAP) and West Houston Subaru, will be held on Sat. The City of Peoria will maintain responsibility for animal nuisance calls such as barking dogs, wildlife complaints and the removal of dead animals. Accreditation is intended to ensure compliance with the standards in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, as well as any other national or local laws on animal welfare. They include regulations for the refinement of experiments, in order to reduce the pain and distress of the experimental animals, and consideration for replacing animal experiments with alternatives or reducing the number of animals used. Animal Experimentation in Japan is regulated by several documents – the Law for the Humane Treatment and Management of Animals, 2005, The Standards Relating to the Care and Management, and Alleviation of Pain and Distress of Experimental Animals, 2006, and guidelines by various ministries and organizations.

The law states that causing distress to animals is not allowed without due cause (Article 2), and that when conducting animal experiments, methods that reduce the pain and distress of the animals as much as possible shall be used. § 101 allows the President, by proclamation, to suspend the importation of all or any class of animals for a limited time, whenever, in his opinion, it is necessary for the protection of animals in the United States against infectious or contagious diseases. The Standards state that usage of animals for scientific purpose is necessary. Animals should not be handled by others except those necessary for shooting a scene (i.e., no petting, cuddling, feeding). animal protection league testing regulations are guidelines that permit and control the use of non-human animals for scientific experimentation. In 2002, the Farm Security Act of 2002, the fifth amendment to the AWA, specifically excluded purpose-bred birds, rats, and mice (as opposed to wild-captured mice, rats, and birds) from regulations. Previously in Alberta, only academic institutions were subject to provincial regulations referencing CCAC standards, as these standards were referenced exclusively in the Alberta Universities Act.

As well, they state that each institution should form an in-house review committee in order to inspect the experiments at that institution, from the standpoint of scientific rationale, with consideration to the Law and Standards mentioned above. An institution must submit details of their facilities and the reason for the experiments, after which a five-year license may be granted following an inspection of the premises. The AWA requires each institution using covered species to maintain an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), which is responsible for local compliance with the Act. To assess the consistency of approval decisions, 150 recent research proposals from these institutions were each independently evaluated by two different animal care and use committees. A study conducted in 2001 by Psychology Professor Scott Plous of Wesleyan University that evaluated the reliability of IACUCs found little consistency between decisions made by IACUCs at different institutions. The study also explored whether reviews were more reliable when the experiment involved certain types of animals or procedures.