Policies & Guidelines

Below are the individual documents outlining the University of South Alabama's policies, procedures, and guidelines associated with the care and use of animals. 

To learn more about the governing regulations which USA is obligated to adhere, please see the Regulations page. 

Policy

• Care and Use of Animals
• Animal Welfare Policy Statement
• Laboratory Animal Adoption
• Field Study Guidelines 
• Dog and Cat Source
• Commercial Tissues
• Outside Sources for Animal Samples
• Controlled and Uncontrolled Substances
• Policy on Non-pharmaceutical Drugs
• Domestic and Foreign Subcontracts
• Domestic &Foreign Subcontract Process
• CD Addenda
• Embryonated Eggs
• Agricultural Animals
• Rodent Survival Surgery
• Bites and Scratches
• IACUC Review and Approval of Amendments
• Protocol Follow-Up Response Guidelines

Practices

• NIH Neonate Euthanasia Guidance
• NIH Endpoints in Animal Study Proposals
• NIH Blood Collection in Mice and Rats
• NIH Rodent Injection Guidance
• Mouse and Rat Tail Biopsy
• NIH Euthanasia of Rodents Using Carbon Dioxide
• IACUC Euthanasia of Guinea Pigs, Rabbits and Swine
• AVMA Euthanasia Guidelines
• Rodent Tumor and Cancer Models Guidance
• Animal Biosafety (ABSL-2) Guidelines

Breeding Software Program: Conditional Allele Mouse Planner (CAMP)

Conditional Allele Mouse Planner (CAMP) is a software program to help scientists set up a breeding strategy and calculate the costs of generating mice with conditional alleles. The software was created at the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and published in Transgenic Res. ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21870117/ ) 2011 Aug 26 [Epub ahead of print]. To access the free application, go to https://hpcwebapps.cit.nih.gov/CAMP/.

DCM

• Animal Requisition Policy
• Fee Schedule
• General Guidelines for working with DCM
• LD50 Monitoring
• Technical Request Form
• Pharmaceutical Mouse
• Pharmaceutical Rat
• Breeding Strategies for Mice

Writing your Vertebrate Animal Section:
The NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) has produced a new podcast that discusses what must be included in an application if vertebrate animals are included in the research? 

To hear the Writing Your Vertebrate Animal Section podcast, please click the following link: https://grants.nih.gov/news/virtual-learning/podcasts.htm and navigate to Prepare a Successful Grant Application: Writing Your Vertebrate Animal Section. 

VAS Template
OLAW VAS Guidelines
Preparing the VAS
VAS Checklist