Definition of Pain and Distress and Reporting Requirements for Laboratory Animals Proceedings of the Workshop Held June 22, 2000 (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Pain, Distress, and Reporting Requirements: PHS Policy Perspective
Pain, Distress, and Reporting Requirements: PHS Policy Perspective
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INTERRELATED ISSUES Although the real focus today is on pain and distress and the USDA Policy 11, which defines these, it is really impossible to separate Policy 11 and look at it independently from some other current initiatives because these issues are all interrelated. Each issue is very important in its own right but also because it has significant potential for unintended outcomes and burdens if not looked at along with others in an integrated fashion.
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On this subject, some of you may be aware that our office is cosponsoring the production of an alternative search engine, working with the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing and a number of other project team members. This search engine is now at the beta test stage, and we are very excited about its prospects.
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For example, if a disease state is the cause of a painful or distressful condition, the effective treatment of that condition could obviously alleviate it. Alternatively, if a behavioral approach were used to alleviate anxiety or distress through something like training, conditioning, social housing, or simply comforting by a trusted caretaker, these methods of pain and distress alleviation would not count because they are not anesthetics or analgesics.
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The current PHS policy and the USDA regulation, in contrast to the HSUS proposals, already require the minimization of pain and distress. The entire biomedical research community has already accepted this concept through the adoption of ethical principles by scientific professional societies, through journal editorial policies, and through commitments made as a condition for eligibility to receive PHS support.
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