IACUC Resources
Preparing for IACUC site visits
For IACUC members
Regulations, Guidelines, & Resources
- 3 R’s of Alternatives
- Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare Regulations: 2023 Edition (AWA)
- APHIS
- AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals
- Center for Disease Control (CDC)
- Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching
- Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: 2011 Edition
- Guidelines for the Use of Wild Birds in Research
- Guidelines for use of fish in research (2014 pdf)
- Guidelines for use of fish in research (ASIH website)
- Guidelines for research on amphibians and reptiles
- Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and teaching (2016)
- Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)
- Public Health Service (PHS) / NIH grant Code of Federal Regulations
- US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- US Fish and Wildlife (USFW)
- United States Animal Health Association (USAHA)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- WSU Policy BPPM: Controlled Substances
Search for alternatives and euthanasia
- How to Conduct a Literature Search for Alternatives
- Harmonization of Animal Care and Use Guidance
- Internet resources for the IACUC
- Searching for alternatives to painful procedures (pdf)
- The AVMA guidelines on Euthanasia (pdf)
Note: links marked with (pdf) will open as a Portable Document File (pdf).
For PIs / Animal Managers
Use of Controlled Substances
Determining sample size
For literature search
- How to Conduct a Literature Search for Alternatives
- Agricola
- Alternatives to use of live animals
- Biomedical research funded by NIH
- Canadian Council of Animal Care
- Database for fishes
- EBSCO Federal research in progress database
- Google Scholar
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine: Studies in Progress
- PubMed
- Web of Science
- Zebra fish model
Regulations, Guidelines, & Resources
- 3 R’s of Alternatives
- Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare Regulations: 2023 Edition (AWA)
- APHIS
- AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals
- Center for Disease Control (CDC)
- Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching
- Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: 2011 Edition
- Guidelines for the Use of Wild Birds in Research
- Guidelines for use of fish in research (2014 pdf)
- Guidelines for use of fish in research (ASIH website)
- Guidelines for research on amphibians and reptiles
- Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and teaching (2016)
- Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)
- Public Health Service (PHS) / NIH grant Code of Federal Regulations
- US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- US Fish and Wildlife (USFW)
- United States Animal Health Association (USAHA)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- WSU Policy BPPM: Controlled Substances
Online power analysis tools
Testing resources
- Alternative to skin irritation testing
- Alternatives to use of live animals
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Fisheries World Wide (FAO)
- Toxicology database
Teaching resources
For students
Species specific resources
Fish
- Guidelines for use of fish in research (2014 pdf)
- Guidelines for use of fish in research (ASIH website)
- Stages of embryonic development of the zebrafish
- The Zebrafish Book
- Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC)
- The Zebrafish Information Network
- Annotated zebrafish development video
- Fish embryonic development video