Useful Information - Animal Handling

3Rs Information & Resources

A recent symposium coordinated by the Swiss 3Rs produced excellent 3Rs content that we are pleased to include on the Royal Society of Biology Animal Licence Holders Accreditation Board web pages. 

As part of project, two videos were produced and three articles for Frontiers Young Minds. The links are as follows: 

Youtube Video

•  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=j-w76Vy8sLA

Links to articles

• Refining Research to Improve the Lives of Laboratory Mice
  
  
• Replacing animal testing - can we and if so, how and when?
  
  
• Reducing the number of research animals: how imaging technologies can help

Other Useful Information sources

• Focus on severe suffering, RSPCA.
• Animal Research News
• Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
• European Commission
• Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Association
• Research Animal Training (RAT)
• Interspecies Differences (Reducing the use of lab animals in research)
• Environmental Health Monitoring is a 3R's replacement for live sentinel rodents
• Minimising aggression in group-housed mice
• Skin Swabbing: refining genotyping of small-bodies fishes
• Rat playpens