Unlike humans, animals cannot provide or deny consent for experimentation; therefore, animal protection must come from self-imposed rules or external government guidelines and regulations, said session chair Arthur Sussman. Against this background there is growing concern about the quality of animal-use enforcement and increasing public demands that there be new ways to address the interests or rights of animals. Panelists discussed the impact of current legal trends on the use of animals in research, specifically, emerging animal rights laws and the use of Freedom of Information requests at the national level and open-record laws or sunshine laws at the state level to gain access to information.
International Animal Research Regulations: Impact on Neuroscience Research: Workshop Summary.
Washington, DC:
National Academies Press (US);
2012.
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