Policies & Guidelines
IACUC Policies and Guidelines
P100 ACCLIMATION AND USE OF ANIMALS IN PROCEDURE ROOMS WITHIN NUS (Updated Oct 2025)
P101 ANIMAL USE THAT REQUIRES IACUC REVIEW AND APPLICATION FORM REQUIREMENTS (Updated Aug 2025)
P102 AUTHORITY OF THE ATTENDING VETERINARIAN (Updated May 2025)
P103 NOTIFICATION TO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (PIs) WITH SICK AND INJURED ANIMALS (Updated Mar 2023)
P104 EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE HUMANE CARE AND USE OF ANIMALS (Updated Mar 2023)
P105 ENTERING WORKING AND VISITING NUS ANIMAL FACILITIES (Updated Jul 2025)
P106 ANIMAL USE LOCATION AND IACUC REVIEW REQUIREMENT (Updated Aug 2024)
P107 ANIMAL TRANSPORT AND USE IN PUBLIC AREAS (Updated Jan 2023)
P108 INCIDENTS REPORTABLE TO IACUC (Updated Feb 2023)
P201 PROTOCOL AMENDMENTS - MAJOR AND MINOR AMENDMENTS (Updated Mar 2026)
P202 PI, CO-PI AND PI DESIGNATE/ EMERGENCY CONTACT (Updated April 2024)
P203 HOUSING OF SOCIAL SPECIES (Updated Jan 2023)
P204 ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT (Updated Jan 2023)
P205 ANIMAL HOUSING DENSITY (Updated Mar 2023)
P206 MOUSE BREEDING CONFIGURATIONS (Updated Jul 2025)
P207 BREEDING COLONY MANAGEMENT (Updated Nov 2025)
P208 RODENT GENOTYPING (Updated Dec 2025)
P209 POLICY ON USE OF DEATH AS AN ENDPOINT IN ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS (Updated Jan 2023)
P210 VISUAL AND AUDIO DOCUMENTATION OF RESEARCH ANIMALS AND ANIMAL USE AREAS (Updated Jun 2026)
P211 MULTIPLE SURVIVAL SURGERIES (Updated Jan 2023)
P212 NON-SURVIVAL SURGERY ON NON-RODENT MAMMALS (Updated Apr 2025)
P213 GUIDELINES ON NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS (Updated Jan 2026)
P214 EXPIRED DEVICES MATERIALS DRUGS AND FLUID (Updated Jan 2023)
P215 USE OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND NON-PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE SUBSTANCES IN ANIMAL RESEARCH (Updated Dec 2024)
P216 GUIDELINES FOR RODENTS WITH NEOPLASIA (Updated Jan 2026)
P217 STERILISATION OF IMPLANTS (Updated Nov 2025)
P218 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY PRODUCTION GUIDELINES (Updated Nov 2025)
P219 POLICY ON FOOD AND FLUID REGULATION (Updated Jan 2023)
P220 POLICY ON USE OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT ON RESEARCH ANIMALS (Updated Jan 2023)
P301 GUIDE ON THE USE OF AVIAN INCLUDING POULTRY EMBRYOS (Updated Jan 2023)
P302 USE OF INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS (Updated Jan 2023)
P303 GUIDELINES ON THE USE OF ZEBRAFISH AND MEDAKA EMBRYOS-LARVAE (Updated Mar 2024)
National and International Policies and Guidelines
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (8th Edition)American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) Guidelines on Euthanasia (UPDATED 2020)
Birdnet: Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research
Animal and Bird Act (Chapter 7) (UPDATED JUL 2022)
National Advisory Committee for Laboratory Animal Research (NACLAR) Guidelines (UPDATED JUL 2022)
Alternatives
Alternatives to Animal Testing on the WebEuropean Centre for Validation of Alternate Methods (ECVAM)
The UC Centre for Animal Alternatives
USDA Animal Welfare Information Centre, Alternatives and Searches
Statistical methods for sample size determination
Sample size determinationSoftwares for statistics calculation
Poweranalysis.com
Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis (SISA)
