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True/ False. The third Nuremberg Code states that experiments should be designed and based on animal
experimentation. - ✔✔True
What year did Congress pass the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act?
a. 1971
b. 1963
c. 1966
d. 1979 - ✔✔c. 1966
In what year was the Animal Care Panel established?
a. 1950
b. 1976
c. 1963
d. 1985 - ✔✔a. 1950
True False, in 1963 the incorporation of the American Association for the Accreditation of Laboratory
Animal Care (AAALAC) was established. - ✔✔False, AAALAC was incorporated in 1965.
In what year was the first edition of the Guide was developed?
a. 1950
b. 1963
c. 1965
d. 1967 - ✔✔b. 1963
True/ False: The Animal Care Panel changed its name to the American Association for Laboratory Animal
Science (AALAS) in 1967. - ✔✔True
,In what year was the first Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals?
a. 1971
b. 1973
c. 1974
d. 1979 - ✔✔b. 1973
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) was established in which year?
a. 1973
b. 1974
c. 1979
d. 1982 - ✔✔a. 1973
True/False: The PHS Policy required each animal-using grantee institution to have a PHS Assurance and a
committee to maintain oversight of its animal care program in 1979. - ✔✔True
What year was the U.S. Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in
Testing, Research and Training promulgated?
a. 1979
b. 1982
c. 1985
d. 1986 - ✔✔c. 1985
What year was the Health Research Extension Act passed by congress?
a. 1979
b. 1982
c. 1985
d. 1986 - ✔✔c.1985
, True/ False: The Animal Welfare Act Amendments passed by Congress in 1985. - ✔✔True
AAALAC became the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
International in what year?
a. 1990
b. 1991
c. 1996
d. 2000 - ✔✔c. 1996
True/False: OPRR Division of Animal Welfare was separated from OPRR and became the Office of
Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), NIH in 2002. - ✔✔False. The OPRR Division of Animal Welfare
became the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) in 2000
True/ False: There are 10 U.S.Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals
Used in Testing, Research, and Training. - ✔✔False. There are 9 U.S. Government Principles
True/ False: Risk/ Benefit Analysis is for research that involves more than minimal risk of harm to the
subjects, the investigator must assure that the amount of benefit clearly outweighs the amount of risk.
Only if there is a favorable risk - benefit ratio may a study be considered ethical. - ✔✔True
What agency is responsible for overseeing the Animal Welfare Act?
a. PHS Policy
b. OLAW
c. AAALAC
d. USDA - ✔✔d. USDA
What agency is responsible for overseeing the PHS Policy?
a. AWA
b. OLAW
c. AAALAC