Humane Endpoints website huge success in Spain and the rest of the world

The Humane Endpoints website (https://www.humane-endpoints.info/) provides information and training modules on how to recognize humane endpoints in laboratory animals. This helps to prevent further distress in the animals by removing the animals from the experiment (e.g. euthanizing the animals) or...

Year Published: 2017Topics: Humane EndpointAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Kliphuis, S. 2017. Humane Endpoints website huge success in Spain and the rest of the world. Laboratory Animals 51(2), 218-219.

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Report from the 2017 Annual SGV (Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association ) Meeting

The Scientific Committee of the Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde, SGV) reports on the Annual SGV Meeting held on 28 and 29 November 2017, at Technopark, Zürich, Switzerland. Feedback after the 2016 meeting and recent developments...

Year Published: 2018Topics: Euthanasia, Humane Endpoint, Husbandry & Management, Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Deurinck, M., Schindler, S., Bugnon, P. et al. 2018. Report from the 2017 Annual SGV (Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association ) Meeting. Laboratory Animals 52(2), 211-213. [Meeting Report]

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Criteria for humane endpoints

Refinement incorporates all measures taken to avoid, minimize, recognize and alleviate pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm - or to otherwise improve the welfare and well-being of the experimental subjects. [p. 27]

Year Published: 1999Topics: Humane EndpointAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Richmond, J. 1999. Criteria for humane endpoints. In: Humane Endpoints in Animal Experiments for Biomedical Research: Proceedings of the International Conference. Hendriksen, C. F. M. , Morton, D. B. (eds), 26-32. The Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, UK.

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