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A Word from USDA and OLAW

Lab Animal volume 49, page 297 (2020)Cite this article

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In response to the issues posed in this scenario, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) and the National Institutes of Health Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (NIH-OLAW) provide the following clarifications.

In this scenario, nonhuman primates that were originally paired became singly housed for a study that was unexpectedly cancelled after several weeks of anticipation. The facility questions whether the animals should be reunited with cohorts after weeks of being unpaired and under the possibility of being placed on another study requiring single housing.

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  1. Director, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, OER, OD, NIH, HHS, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Patricia Brown VMD, MS, DACLAM

  2. Deputy Administrator, Animal Care, APHIS, USDA, Riverdale, MD, USA

    Betty Goldentyer DVM

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Correspondence to Patricia Brown VMD, MS, DACLAM or Betty Goldentyer DVM.

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Brown, P., Goldentyer, B. A Word from USDA and OLAW. Lab Anim 49, 297 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-020-00666-y

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