Suggested Citation: "Laboratory Animal Management Practices." National Research Council. 2000. Strategies That Influence Cost Containment in Animal Research Facilities. Washington, DC: The National ...

This program is intended to provide a standardized, risk-assessment based approach to engineering controls, PPE, and husbandry in BU’s animal spaces for work with rodents. Other animals (i.e., birds, ...

Animal-transfer and cage-changing stations are portable downdraft-filtered clean benches that have been specifically modified for small-rodent handling and cage changing from two or more sides, and ...

Chickens swarm Pete Lowy, of Codman Community Farms in Lincoln, as he uses a tractor to move a chicken house. Despite the family's long-standing dedication to humane animal farming, Lowy says Question ...

The consensus of the committee was that room design, ergonomic considerations, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning capacity to maintain appropriate ambient air conditions should be evaluated by ...

In order to provide researchers, animal facility staff, other animals, and the environment with the appropriate safeguards, the Boston University Animal Science Center (BUASC), and Environmental ...