About KPU Animal Care
KPU's RS6 Animal Use and Ethics in Teaching and Research Policy / Procedure was recently approved. This policy covers the care, welfare, and ethical treatment of all animals used in teaching and research at all KPU campuses and off-campus field locations. It upholds CCAC standards that establish the basic requirements for each institutional program within the Canadian system of oversight of animal ethics and care.
The Policy and Procedure ensures current teaching and research at KPU involving animal use, including (for example) animal husbandry courses, wild animal surveys in ecology courses, and model organism use in research complies with the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) guidelines for responsible use of animals, as recommended by the Canadian Tri-Agency Framework on Responsible Conduct of Research. This will ensure the proper care, welfare, and ethical treatment of all animals used in teaching and research at any KPU campuses, off-campus sites, or field locations, as per the guidelines and standards set out by the CCAC.
Terms of Reference
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is committed to the humane and ethical care of animals used in teaching, research, and testing. All animal use at KPU must be justified by review of pedagogical or scientific merit, and there must be reasonable expectation that the use of animals will: be beneficial to the health and welfare of humans or of animals; advance basic scientific knowledge; or provide educational outcomes that cannot be achieved by other means. KPU follows the tenets of the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, refinement) and adheres to best practices that may evolve over time, as recommended by the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC).
KPU will maintain a functionally active Animal Care Committee (ACC) for so long as any teaching, research, or testing involving animals is conducted by KPU personnel (employees, students, visitors, contractors, or volunteers), in any KPU site where animals are housed or used, including alternate housing, laboratories, and field locations.
KPU ACC must work to ensure that all animal users and caregivers are informed of, and comply with, the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) policies, Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Medicine (CALAM) Standards of Veterinary Care, applicable legislation and KPU policies and procedures.
The ACC will operate in accordance with the established
RS6 Animal Use and Ethics in Teaching and Research Policy
KPU's RS6 Animal Use and Ethics in Teaching and Research Policy / Procedure was recently approved.
The Policy and Procedure ensures current teaching and research at KPU involving animal use, including (for example) animal husbandry courses, wild animal surveys in ecology courses, and model organism use in research complies with the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) guidelines for responsible use of animals, as recommended by the Canadian Tri-Agency Framework on Responsible Conduct of Research. This will ensure the proper care, welfare, and ethical treatment of all animals used in teaching and research at any KPU campuses, off-campus sites, or field locations, as per the guidelines and standards set out by the CCAC.
Canadian Council on Animal Care
For the purpose of the CCAC's mandate, an animal is a non-human vertebrate or a cephalopod. An animal is used in science if it is an essential component of a research, teaching, testing project or program. This applies whether the animal is the subject of science (e.g., wildlife or farm animal studies), or is supporting science, either directly (e.g., animal model of disease or of a biological process, animals used in clinical trials) or indirectly (e.g., breeding colonies, sentinel animals, animals used for training, animals used as food for other animals).
Contact
Email: acc@kpu.ca
Report animal welfare issues: acc@kpu.ca