AALAS LAT PRACTICE EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS | LATEST EDITION

AALAS LAT PRACTICE EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS | LATEST EDITION 1. Laboratory Animal Welfare Act establishes care and use standards for research animals, it was passed in what year? - ANSWER 1966 2. Who is responsible for enforcing the Animal Welfare Act? - ANSWER USDA 3. Laboratory Animal Welfare Act was amended in 1970 and was renamed the Animal Welfare Act, what additional requires were added in the amendment? - ANSWER all animal dealers to licensed, mandated the use of analgesics, and added several species to be covered under its regulations 4. All anesthesia and analgesic agents should be chosen depending on their? - ANSWER appropriateness for the specific species 5. Euthanasia methods must be in accordance with which guidelines? - ANSWER AVMA 6. What are some guidelines for appropriate euthanasia? - ANSWER Compatibility with the species, age, and health status of the animal Ability to rapidly induce loss of consciousness and death without causing pain, distress, anxiety, or apprehension Reliability and irreversibility Compatibility with requirements and study purpose Ease of maintaining the equipment Safety for personnel Emotional effect on the observers or operators Availability and human abuse potential Risk to predators or scavengers should the carcass be consumed (mostly for field studies) 7. What are GLPs? - ANSWER Set of controls for research laboratories to ensure consistent procedures and therefore reliable data 8. How mandates GLP standards? - ANSWER FDA and EPA 9. GLP regulation require what to be created? - ANSWER SOPs or Standard Operating Procedures 10. Any activity that can be considered routine should have an accompanying ___________. - ANSWER SOP 11. SOPs must include? - ANSWER who is responsible for the task, frequency the task occurs, and step by step instructions to accomplish the task 12. In order to maintain accreditation or start accreditation, an institution must submit a program description and AAALAC will conduct an on site review of the animal care and use program, how often are these site visits performed? - ANSWER every 3 years