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Compliance Considerations

Lab Animal volume 51, page 247 (2022)Cite this article

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The Protocol Review coordinators offer the following compliance considerations:

The fact that the samples are collected “opportunistically”, i.e. during veterinary examinations that are required to maintain the health and wellbeing of the animals, does not make the sample collection part of the clinical care provided (even if the outcome is interesting to the zoo veterinarian). If, however, the zoo veterinarians collected skin swabs themselves, for their own analysis, and simply collected a few more for Dr. Lauke, then the swabs could be considered part of the clinical care of the elephants.

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Danridge, L., Greer, B. Compliance Considerations. Lab Anim 51, 247 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-022-01056-2

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