Atch_1_-_SOW_Additional_Details.pdf

Live Animal (Swine) Transportation in support of Surgeon General Approved Protocol

FWH2016011A

Brain MRI and Serological Effects of Hypobaric Exposure to 30,000 Ft and Hyperoxemic Exposure

At Sea Level in a sus scrofa domestica Model

The following minimum conditions are required for transport of live research animals between the 59th

Clinical Research Division at Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas and the Air Force

Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.

1. Animals must be transported in an environmentally controlled enclosed vehicle to prevent temperature related stress.

2. Vehicle used to transport research animals must be power washed and disinfected prior to loading of the animals for transport.

3. Drives must have experience transporting live animals and must be uniformed to help prevent exposure of research animals to outside contaminants (Uniformed).

4. Animals must be caged in enclosure meeting AAALAC(i) standards for space (8.0 sq/ft per animal) and caging must be design as to prevent harm to the research animals.

5. Animals must have food and water available within the enclosure of the transport vehicle, and not exposed to outside weather conditions or viewing by the public for the entire length of the trip. Animals cannot be released from caging for feeding and watering.

6. Vendor must be registered by the USDA for the transport of live animals.

7. Research animals must be transported by themselves. No other animals may be enclosed with the research animals during this transport period.

8. Research animals will be picked up in the morning of transport at the 59th Clinical Research

Division, Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland AFB, Tx and delivered the next morning to the Air

Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB.

All requirements listed are required according to Public Law, CFR 9, the Animal Welfare Act, Requirements found in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and those determined by the 59th Clinical Research Divisions, Institution Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

PAUL T. BARNICOTT, GS‐15, DAF

Deputy Director, 59th Clinical Research Division