Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Change to USDA-APHIS Review Requirements
USDA-APHIS regulates the use of all warm-blooded animals, excluding mice and rats bred specifically for research. In an effort to reduce duplicative requirements and administrative burden, USDA-APHIS will no longer require annual reviews of protocols that use species regulated under the Animal Welfare Act. Rather, they now only require a complete review of the project once every three years, the same as the NIH Office of Lab Animal Welfare (OLAW). The UCSB IACUC has already implemented this change.