{"id":22656,"date":"2020-07-14T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-matters\/?p=22656"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T15:49:58","slug":"updated-avma-guidelines-for-the-euthanasia-of-animals-2020-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/updated-avma-guidelines-for-the-euthanasia-of-animals-2020-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2020 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIH\u2019s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) has notified institutions that the new 2020 AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia of Animals are to be implemented <strong>October 1, 2020<\/strong>. After October 1, 2020, grant applications and contract proposals must be consistent with the AVMA 2020 Guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The main change that will affect the most researchers is the method of CO2 exposure for rodents. <strong>The new required CO2 displacement rate is 30-70% of the chamber volume\/minute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/docs\/policies\/compliance\/oacu\/UGA-IACUC-C02-Euthanasia.pdf\">UGA IACUC Policy on Rodent Euthanasia Using Carbon Dioxide<\/a> has already been updated to reflect the new requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions posted at CO2 euthanasia stations should no longer reflect the old flow rate range, and must reflect the new required flow rate range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIH\u2019s Office of Animal Welfare (OLAW) has notified institutions that the new 2020 AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia of Animals are to be implemented October 1, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-compliance"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 15:42:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}