Chimpanzees In Research: Strategies For Their Ethical Care, Management, And Use by COMMITTEE ON LONG-TERM CARE OF CHIMPANZEES

Author:COMMITTEE ON LONG-TERM CARE OF CHIMPANZEES
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biology and Life Sciences : Lab Animal Research
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 1997-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Recommendations For The Practice Of Euthanasia Endorsed By The Committee

The committee seriously considered the issues raised above and offers the following recommendations:

• Euthanasia should be permitted for reasons of health or quality of life of the individual, for example, terminal disease, in connection with trauma, or complications of aging. Methods should be consistent with the 1993 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia. The decision to euthanize should be left to the veterinarian in consultation with the investigator or facility director.

• The committee does not recommend euthanasia as a general means of population control (that is, to dispose of chimpanzees no longer useful for research or breeding). The committee contends that funding must be made available to maintain an appropriate level of care; otherwise, directors of chimpanzee colonies would be placed in an unacceptable position in which selective euthanasia might come to be seen as the only available means of maintaining the quality of life of the remaining research chimpanzee population.

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