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Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
(IACUC)
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Portland
VA Medical Center
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd
(R&D 36)
Portland, OR 97239
(503) 220-8262 x57610 |
The Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center recognizes
the vital importance that animals fulfill in research.
PVAMC is bound by federal mandates, namely the Animal
Welfare Act, (Federal Web Site) the Public
Health Service Policy, (Federal Web Site) and the
Department of Veterans Affairs, to maintain an oversight
committee (IACUC) that reviews and regulates the use of
animals for biomedical research and teaching.
As part of quality assurance and a high standard of care,
the IACUC follows the guidelines of the Office
of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) (Federal Web Site)
and sets its policies according to the Guide
for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (non-Federal
Web Site) and the Department of Veterans Affairs
Handbook 1200.7, Use of Animals in Research (VA
Web Site, PDF).
The Veterinary Medical Unit, with which the IACUC works
closely, is fully accredited from the Association
for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal
Care (AAALAC) (non-Federal Web Site) and has letters
of assurance on file with the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) (Federal Web Site) and
the OLAW.
The IACUC routinely evaluates the Veterinary Medical
Unit facilities to assure compliance with federal, state,
and local laws.
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