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January 26, 2018

In the United States, two major federal laws apply to vertebrate animals used in laboratory research. The first of these two statutes, the Animal Welfare Act (AWA, under the US Department of Agriculture), celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2016. The second statute, the Health Research Extension Act of 1985 (also referred to as the Public Health Services Act, or PHS Act), which is similar to the AWA, applies specifically to work funded by the US Public Health Service (i.e., agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services). Understanding laboratory animal law is necessary and fundamental for all researchers relying on results from animal research, laboratory animal veterinarians, institutional officials, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) members and veterinarians in training. They require familiarity with both the scope and particulars of these laws. Different parties interested in or impacted by laboratory animal laws can have significantly different perspectives about the scope or efficiency of the regulations or their implementation.

Panel: Resolution

Jerrold Tannenbaum, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Nathan W. Herschler, New England Anti-Vivisection Society
Moderator: Richard L. Cupp, Pepperdine University School of Law; organizing committee member

This event was cosponsored by the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School. With support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.

Learn more at: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/future-directions-for-laboratory-animal-law-in-the-united-states