"...promoting the best practices in animal research and testing"
Mission Statement
The Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) is composed of research professionals dedicated to balancing animal welfare and excellence in basic and applied scientific inquiry. SCAW recognizes that some research areas present challenges regarding animal use. SCAW affirms that the potential benefit to humans and animals from research and the cost to the animal subject(s) must both be considered. By addressing animal research challenges directly through education and training, SCAW serves to facilitate open discussion and helps craft solutions as well as promote best practices. Through its outreach to the broader research community, SCAW demonstrates its commitment to excellence in animal care and science.
SCAW’s goals are the development, acceptance and implementation of best practices for the promotion of animal welfare with the conviction that quality animal care and use improves both the quality of scientific results and engenders public support for scientific research; provision of an on-going forum for the exchange and evaluation of scientific information about the care, treatment, well-being and ethical use of animals.
Other initiatives of SCAW are:
Encourage the development and adoption of effective and efficient standards and measures of performance standards; employment of communications media to inform the scientific community, institutional officials, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, institutional animal care personnel, public policy makers and the general public about the results of its activities; cooperation with other groups, associations and agencies that have goals similar to those of SCAW.
Keywords: Animal, Animals, Animal care, donations, testing, research, welfare, science, scientific, education, training, public support, treatment, well-being, ethical, use of animals, charity, charitable
D Peck on 2/7/2012 1:13:16 PM
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