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Welfare and severity assessment

  • Progress in assessing animal welfare in relation to new legislation: Opportunities for behavioural researchers (2014, not open access)
     
  • Identifying and managing distress, suffering and pain in cephalopods, including anesthesia, analgesia and humane killing (2013, not open access)
     
  • Guidance on the severity classification of scientific procedures involving fish (2011, Working Group convened by Norecopa)
     
  • A guide to defining and implementing protocols for the welfare assessment of laboratory animals (2011, with BVAAWF/FRAME/UFAW, published version)
     
  • Guide to defining and implementing welfare assessment protocols (2010, full version)
     
  • Welfare assessment of laboratory animals: Current good practice and some outstanding issues (2011)
     
  • Refinement through better animal monitoring: How behavioural researchers can contribute (2010; p153-4)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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