Web Directory

» Animal Welfare
   Helps establish acceptable standards of humane animal care and treatment; monitors and achieves compliance with the Animal Welfare Act through inspections, education, and cooperative efforts. News, press releases, notices, policity manual, FAQ. USDA/APHIS
   http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/index.shtml

» Animal Welfare Act and Regulations
   Full text, amendments, rules and FAQ for biomedical research institutions. USDA. US.
   http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/usdaleg1.htm

» Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)
   Resources to help those working with laboratory, farm and exhibit animals to comply with the Animal Welfare Act. AWIC Bulletin, AWIC Workshops, government and law resources, publications, alternatives and searches, news and information, databases and rela
   http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/

» House of Commons - Criminal Justice and Police Bill
   Hansard. Membership of committee, latest version of the Bill and report of proceedings.
   http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200001/cmstand/f/cmcrim.htm

» National Institutes of Health (NIH)
   An agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is one of the world's foremost medical research centers and the Federal focal point for health research. As the steward of biomedical and behavioral research for the Nation, its mission is sc
   http://www.nih.gov

» National Toxicology Program (NTP)
   Background, factsheets, testing information and study results, grants, NTP Evaluation Centers (including Alternative Toxicological Methods), how regulatory agencies use NTP data, announcements, meetings and publications, chemical health and safety informa
   http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov

» Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)
   News, policies and laws, guidance, general information and assured institutions. NIH, Office of Extramural Research. US.
   http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw

» The Animal Procedures Committee
   A non-departmental public body appointed to advise the Home Office on matters concerned with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, relating to any experimental or other scientific procedures applied to a protected animal which may have the effect
   http://www.apc.gov.uk

» The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods
   ICCVAM organizes the evaluation and approval of alternative toxicological methods that reduce, refine, reduce, or replace the use of animals while introducing reductions in cost and/or time throughout multiple US Federal Government agencies. US.
   http://iccvam.niehs.nih.gov

» ZEBET: Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments
   State body working to replace legally prescribed animal experiments with alternative test methods, reduce the number of test animals, alleviate the pain and suffering of animals used, and achieve national and international recognition of alternatives. Dat
   http://www.bfr.bund.de/cd/1591