Animals

This Assurance is applicable to all research, research training, experimentation, biological testing, and related activities, hereinafter referred to as activities, involving live, vertebrate animals1 supported by WSU or the Public Health Service (PHS) and conducted at WSU, in the field, or at another institution as a consequence of the subgranting or subcontracting of a PHS-conducted or supported activity by WSU.. Faculty, staff and students at WSU may conduct research and/or teaching activities with laboratory-bred rats and mice, birds and lower vertebrates (fish, amphibians and reptiles). Activities may not involve on campus housing of species covered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s definition of animal, which includes any live or dead dog, cat, monkey (nonhuman primate mammal), guinea pig, hamster, rabbit or other such warm-blooded animal, including wild species of rats and mice. Ultimate responsibility for the care of any animal rests with the Principal Investigator, who shall name another faculty designee to be approved by the IACUC. This designee will assume responsibility for the care of the animals upon the absence of the Principal Investigator. If the IACUC receives a report of animals not receiving appropriate care and determines to the best of its ability that said care is inadequate, the IACUC will assume control of the animals and may care for or dispose of the animals, up to and including euthanasia, as appropriate. IACUC emergency / notification procedures are included in an attachment to the IACUC Protocol form and are updated annually