Victorian Bureau of Animal Welfare

Guidelines & Policies & Codes

• Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Laboratory Mice, Rats, Guinea Pigs and Rabbits (external link)
• Code of Practice for the Use of Animals from Municipal Pounds for Scientific Procedures (external link)
• Guidelines for the Harvesting of Blood from Livestock for Commercial and Research Purposes (external link)
• Scientific Licensing Requirements (external link)
• BAW auditing protocol for licensed scientific premises (external link)
• Guidelines for the ethical use of animals in research & teaching (external link)
• Annual Return of Animal Usage
• Principles of Record Keeping for Investigators (external link)
• Extreme Heat Preparedness - November 09 (pdf 573kb)
• Tissue Collection for Genotyping is a Scientific Procedure (rtf 12kb)