NEWS & RESOURCES

What's New

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NEW CONTACT DETAILS

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Added May 2010 for download:

RSPCA & LASA 2010 Guiding Principles on Good Practice for Ethical Review Processes. A report by the RSPCA Research Animals Department and LASA Education, Training and Ethics section. (M. Jennings ed.)

Added January 2010 for download:

LASA 2010. Guiding Principles for Preparing for and Undertaking Aseptic Surgery. A report by the LASA Education, Training and Ethics section. (M. Jennings and M. Berdoy eds.).

2009. Animal Welfare, Ethics and the 3Rs Training materials and resources. (D.I. Lewis ed.).

INFORMATION FROM SESSIONS AT PREVIOUS SECTION MEETINGS

LASA will pass on questions or requests for information from delegates. If you require any information please contact the secretariat.

NEW SPECIALIST SECTION

The Home Office Liaison Officers' Forum was formally constituted as a specialist section of LASA in April, 2010.

MEETINGS

September 2010 - proposal for a 1-day meeting on the new EU86/609 Directive – programme suggestions welcomed.

Freedom of Information and ASPA

30 September, 2010. The Home Office Liaison Officers' Forum, in conjunction with Understanding Animal Research, are offering this one day meeting primarily for academic Home Office liaison officers and Freedom of Information officers.

Certificate Holders' Forum

The next meeting of the Certificate Holders' Forum will be on 11 and 12 October, 2010.

Winter Meeting 2010

Dates for your diary, Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd December 2010.

Home Office Liaison Officers' Forum

The next meeting of the Home Office Liaison Forum is to be held in February 2011.

 

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Laboratory Animals

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Laboratory Animals is a peer reviewed journal published quarterly for Laboratory Animals Limited by Royal Society of Medicine Press. This is the official journal of LASA and it is distributed FREE to all LASA members.

 

LASA Forum

The Forum is LASA's newsletter, in 2004 the newsletter underwent a major overhaul, was renamed and redesigned, it is produced every quarter and sent to automatically to all members.

 

3Rs - Reduction, Refinement and Replacement

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National Centre for the Three Rs, NC3Rs

 

Go3Rs Search Engine

Semantic search to avoid animal experiments

 

AltWeb

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"Altweb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site, was created to serve as a gateway to alternatives news, information, and resources on the Internet and beyond."

 

Norwegian School of Veterinary Science

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"The Centre provides information on laboratory animal science and alternatives to the use of animals in research, teaching and school dissection classes."

 

Animal Procedures Committee

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"The Animal Procedures Committee (APC) is an advisory, Non-Departmental Public Body established and appointed under the terms of sections 19 and 20 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Our role is to advise the Home Secretary on matters concerned with the Act and his functions under it, relating to any experimental or other scientific procedures applied to a protected animal which may have the effect of causing that animal pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm; and also, to examine other related subjects we consider worthy of further study."

 

Understanding Animal Research

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'Understanding Animal Research is the new organisation formed by the Research Defence Society and Coalition for Medical Progress.

Soon, this space will allow you to view video clips. Keep coming back over the next few weeks to see the images in our media library; more resources for schools; a quiz to find out what you know; myths & facts; a timeline of medical advances; a questionnaire to find out your attitudes to animal research; and much more...'