Animal Alternatives in Research: Websites

AAALAC International is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes the humane treatment of animals in science through voluntary accreditation and assessment programs. AAALAC stands for the "Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care."

"The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) provides guidance and interpretation of the Public Health Service (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, supports educational programs, and monitors compliance with the Policy by Assured institutions and PHS funding components to ensure the humane care and use of animals in PHS-supported research, testing, and training, thereby contributing to the quality of PHS-supported activities."

Non-animal methods for testing toxicity

"Altweb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site, was created to serve as a gateway to alternatives news, information, and resources on the Internet and beyond. Altweb now is the U.S. home of the journal ALTEX: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, which is the official publication of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)."

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) provides information on chemical testing, animal testing and experimental issues, pesticide animal tests, cosmetics testing, Animals, Research, and Alternatives: Measuring Progress 50 Years Later, and IPACO.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides leadership for determining standards of humane care and treatment of animals. APHIS implements those standards and achieves compliance through inspection, education, cooperative efforts, and enforcement.

The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) is mandated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) to provide information for improved animal care and use in research, testing, teaching, and exhibition.

Semantic search to avoid animal experiments

The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) is a permanent committee of the NIEHS under the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM). ICCVAM is composed of representatives from 15 U.S. Federal regulatory and research agencies that require, use, generate or disseminate toxicological and safety testing information.

InterNICHE is the International Network for Humane Education.site is a collaborative, content-rich and multi-language resource. It has been developed to meet the needs of teachers and trainers, students, ethics committees, alternatives producers and campaigners internationally.The site comprises an evolving range of news, information, database access and downloads provided by InterNICHE.

NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) evaluates alternative methods used for testing chemicals for research or regulatory purposes.

"TSAR is a tool to provide a transparent view on the status of alternative methods as they progress from purely scientific protocols submitted for pre-validation to being actively used in a regulatory context."