Publication Date:
2001-02-24
Description:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requested comments earlier this year to help it decide whether to adopt a formal definition of "distress" as part of its responsibilities under the Animal Welfare Act. But the 2600 pieces of advice it received during a 4-month period that ended earlier this month suggest that its job won't be easy. The comments highlight a deep split between animal activists, who see the potential new regulations as a step toward eliminating all painful procedures, and most researchers, who say that the present system is working well and that no major changes are needed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Holden, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Nov 24;290(5496):1474-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11185495" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Animal Experimentation
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*Animal Welfare/legislation & jurisprudence
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Animals
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*Animals, Laboratory
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*Government Regulation
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Pain/veterinary
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*Research
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Stress, Physiological/*veterinary
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United States
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*United States Department of Agriculture/legislation & jurisprudence
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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