CCSEA GUIDELINES FOR LABORATORY ANIMAL FACILITY

Satheeshkumar N.*, A. Deenadhayalan, P. Dhanushkumar, Dr. B. Sangameswaran, Dr. S. Kannan

The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying have changed the name of the committee that controls and monitors the experiments on animals from the “Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals” (CPCSEA), to the “Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CCSEA”) through its order dated January 06, 2023. The guidelines of CPCSEA were implemented in the year 1998. The focus of the latter guidelines was to control and supervise the experiments on the animals that are used in biomedical institutions, veterinary research institutions and research laboratories for educational and research purposes. In 2004, the CPCSEA officially accepted the concept of the 4Rs concept such as replacement, reduction, refinement and rehabilitation of experimental animals to promote human care of affected animals.