Report of the 2006 RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group meeting.
The RSPCA/UFAW Rodent Welfare Group holds a one-day meeting every autumn to discuss current welfare research and to exchange views on rodent welfare issues. A key aim of the group is to encourage people to think about the lifetime experience of laboratory rodents, ensuring that every potential influence on their well-being has been reviewed and refined. Speakers at the 2006 meeting presented preliminary findings of ongoing studies and discussed regulatory updates. Topics included the housing and husbandry of mice and rats, refining the use of rodents in asthma research, good practice for the euthanasia of rodents using carbon dioxide and achieving reduction by sharing genetically modified mice.
Reed
Barney
B
Research Animals Department, Science Group, RSPCA, Wilberforce Way, Southwater, West Sussex RH13 9RS, UK.
Hawkins
Penny
P
Latham
Naomi
N
Westwood
Kerry
K
van Driel
Katja
K
Battram
Cliff
C
Golledge
Huw
H
Farmer
Anne-Marie
AM
Osborne
Nikki
N
Jennings
Maggy
M
Hubrecht
Robert
R
D032761:Animal Experimentation / Q000592:standards; D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000592:standards; D000827:Animal Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D037901:Euthanasia, Animal / Q000379:methods; D006799:Housing, Animal / Q000592:standards; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats