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Animal Care and Use
Animal Care and Use
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides high quality care and promotes the health and well-being of animals used in research and teaching while ensuring the training and safety of our faculty, staff, and students.
The following campus units share the responsibility for the care and welfare of animals used in research and teaching:
- Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
- Division of Animal Resources (DAR)
- Agricultural Animal Care and Use Program (AACUP)
- Occupational Health and Safety Programs (OHS)
Animal Care and Use Policies
- Acceptable Methods of Euthanasia (IACUC)
- Adjuvant Use in Animals (IACUC)
- Animal Adoption (CAM)
- Animal Facility Access (DAR)
- Animal Facility Photography (DAR)
- Animal Facility Tour (DAR)
- Animal Housing (IACUC)
- Animal Use in Research and Teaching (CAM)
- Biosecurity and Biocontainment (DAR)
- Controlled Sustances (DAR)
- Environmental Enrichment for Rabbits, Rodents, and Ferrets (IACUC)
- Establishing Mouse Breeding Groups (DAR)
- Exercising Dogs (IACUC)
- Exporting Laboratory Animals (DAR)
- Food Restriction for Rodents (IACUC)
- Importing Rodents into U of I Animal Facilities (DAR)
- Maintenance of Hybridomas in Rodents and the Collection of Ascites Fluid (IACUC)
- Monitoring and Documentation of Animals at Risk for Morbidity and Mortality (DAR)
- Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Animals (IACUC/OHS)
- Oversight of Investigator-Maintained Animal Colonies (IACUC)
- Procurement of Laboratory Animals (DAR)
- Providing Health Care for Agricultural Animals Imported for Use in Research and Teaching (AACUP)
- Reporting Morbidity and Mortality in Animals Used in Research (AACUP)
- Review of Animal Use at the University of Illinois (IACUC)
- Stablization of New Animals (IACUC)
- Survival Surgery (IACUC)
- Testing Biological Specimens to be Implanted into Live Laboratory Rodents (DAR)
- Use of Non-Pharmaceutical-Grade Compounds in Animals (IACUC)
- Use of Sedatives, Analgesics, and Anesthetics in Animals Used in Research and Teaching (DAR)
- Wire Bottom Caging for Rodents (IACUC)
Campus Regulatory Compliance
The University of Illinois is registered as a research facility in accordance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act (Public Law 89-544) and the Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The U of I holds the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) of the National Institutes of Health assurance for vertebrate animals used in research, teaching, and outreach on the Urbana campus and other university facilities.
In accordance with the Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the U of I works with the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) of the National Institutes of Health to assure the welfare of animals used in research and teaching. The U of I is accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC).
USDA Registration number: 33-R-0029
NIH Animal Assurance number: A3118-01 (expiration 6/30/21)
AAALAC: #00766: Accredited Campus-wide since 2001