Laboratory Animals Hot Issues

• Adjuvants & Antibody Production: Comparisons & Alternative Technologies, 1998
• Alternatives and Database Searching
• Attending Veterinarian
• Disaster Planning
• Environmental Enrichment
• Food Deprivation or Water Deprivation
• Issues in Rodent Housing Bibliography
• Legislation, Policies, Guidelines and Codes of Practice
• Pain Management and Humane Endpoints
• Statistics and Animal Numbers
• USDA Policies Related to Lab Animals (Complete set of policies at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ac/polmanpdf.html)

         - Policy 3 - Veterinary Care
         - Policy 9 - Barrier Facility SPF Colony Inspection
         - Policy 11 - Painful/Distressful Procedures
         - Policy 12 - Consideration of Alternatives to Painful/Distressful Procedures
         - Policy 14 - Major Survival Surgery: Single vs. Multiple
         - Policy 15 - IACUC Membership

Laboratory Animals Publications

• Analgesia & Analgesics in Animals, 2000
• Animal Facility Sanitation and Cage Wash, 2003
• Audio-Visuals Relating to Animal Care, Use, & Welfare, 2003
• Care and Use of Molluscs, 2003
• Environmental Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates Resource Guide, 1999
• Fish Welfare, 2003
• Information Resources for Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, 2000
• Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• Quail, Pheasant, Finches, Ostrich, Dove, Parrot, 2004
  
• Recognition & Alleviation of Pain & Distress in Animals, 2000
• Swine in Biomedical Research, 2000

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Farm Animals Hot Issues

• Avian Influenza
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE), Chronic Wasting Disease
• Cockfighting - House of Representatives, March 31, 2003
• Environmental Enrichment
• Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Threats to Animal Agriculture: Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) & Exotic Newcastle Disease (END)
• West Nile Virus

Farm Animals Publications

• Animal Health Safeguarding Review: Results and Recommendations, 2001
• Beef Cattle Housing, Care and Welfare, 2004
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Other Animal Related Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, 2004
• Care and Welfare of Dairy Cattle, 2002
• Disposal of Dead Production Animals, 2003
• Fish Welfare, 2003
• Induced Molting in Chickens, 2002
• Johne's Disease (Mycobacterium avium subspec. paratuberculosis), 2003
• Newcastle Disease in Birds, 2003
• Quail, Pheasant, Finches, Ostrich, Dove, Parrot, 2004
  
• The Science and Ethics Behind Animal Well-Being Assessment: Future Trends in Animal Agriculture, May 28, 2003
• Sharing Costs of Changes in Food Animal Production: Producers, Consumers, Society and the Environment: Future Trends in Animal Agriculture Workshop, September 17, 2003
• Swine Housing, Care and Welfare, 2003
• Tuberculosis in Animals: Mycobacterium bacilli that cause Devastating Zoonotic Diseases in Many Animals, 2004
• Proceedings: Symposium on Swine Housing and Well-being, June 5, 2002, Des Moines, Iowa
• West Nile Virus, 2003

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Exhibition Animals Hot Issues

• Avian Influenza
• Disaster Planning
• Environmental Enrichment
• Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Threats to Animal Agriculture: Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Exotic Newcastle Disease (END)
• West Nile Virus

Exhibition Animals Publications

• Elephants, 2003
• Fish Welfare, 2003
• Handling Fish Fed to Fish-Eating Animals: A Manual of Standard Operating Procedures, 1998 (AWIC, APHIS, Brookfield Zoo)
• Handling Frozen/Thawed Meat and Prey Items Fed to Captive Exotic Animals A Manual of Standard Operating Procedures, 2001 (AWIC, APHIS, Brookfield Zoo) (pdf)
• Nutrient Composition of Whole Vertebrate Prey (Excluding Fish) Fed in Zoos, 2002 (pdf)
• Quail, Pheasant, Finches, Ostrich, Dove, Parrot, 2004
  
• Tuberculosis in Animals: Mycobacterium bacilli that cause Devastating Zoonotic Diseases in Many Animals, 2004
  

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Companion Animals Hot Issues

• Traveling with Animals?