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IACUC Training
"Desirable as replacement is, it would be a mistake to put all our humanitarian eggs in this basket alone. The progress of replacement is gradual, nor is it ever likely to absorb the whole of experimental biology." W.M.S. Russell and R.L. Burch, 1959

Current federal regulations mandate that institutions using animals in research, testing, or education must establish and provide resources for an animal care program along with an institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) to oversee and evaluate the program. While the regulations indicate that it is the institution's responsibility to provide training for members of the animal care program and the IACUC committee, surprisingly, there are no specifics on how to actually accomplish this. This "gray" area causes difficulty for institutions because they do not fully understand the training needs for a functional animal care program.

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