Animal Care Committee

The CBU Animal Care Committee (ACC) is responsible for:

  • Ensuring that animal care and use procedures at CBU comply with CCAC guidelines
  • Evaluating animal use protocols to determine their ethical acceptability
  • Ensuring that due consideration is given to the ethics of animal experimentation by all those involved

and has the authority to:

  • Stop any objectionable procedure if it considers that unnecessary distress or pain is being experienced by an animal
  • Stop immediately any use of animals which deviates from the approved use, any no-approved procedure, or any procedure causing unforeseen pain or distress to animals.
  • Have an animal killed humanely if pain or distress to the animal cannot be alleviated.

The ACC reports to the Vice-President, Academic through the Office of Research & Graduate Studies.

Terms of Reference in (PDF).

2016 – 2017 CBU Animal Care Committee Members

  • Katherine Jones (Chair)
  • Dana Mount (ACC Coordinator)
  • Nicole MacDougall (Incoming ACC Coordinator)
  • Byron Buick (Veterinarian)
  • Margaret Dechman (Non-Animal User member)
  • Kellie White (Lab Instructor Member)
  • Kathy MacIntosh (Lab Instructor Member)
  • Sandy Anthony (Community Representative)
  • Ken Oakes (Biology Faculty Member)
  • Ryan Lewis (Student Member)
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