The IACUC will be conducting its federally mandated semi-annual facility inspections during the next several weeks. During the inspections, IACUC members may request information and records related to your IACUC approved protocol and use of animals. Please arrange to have personnel available in your laboratory during the inspection period to answer questions and provide access to animal use records. For more information about the semi-annual facility inspections, please refer to the IACUC website at http://www.research.uci.edu/ora/acup/preparingforinspection.htm
The tentative schedule for facility inspections is listed below. (NOTE: Times are approximate, and the schedule is subject to change without further notification).
Friday May 3, 2013 – 9:00 am – noon
NatSci 2 Labs and Vivarium
Tuesday, May, 7, 2013 – 9:00 am – noon
North Campus, Steinhaus Classrooms and Vivarium
Wednesday May 8, 2013 – 9:00 –noon
Hewitt and Sprague Labs and Vivariums (incl ABSL3)
Friday, May 10, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Gillespie Labs and Vivarium
Monday, May 13, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
UCIMC Bldg 55 – labs and vivarium
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
McGaugh Hall Labs
Monday, May 20, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Med Sci Labs
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine Hall/Campus MRI
Friday, May 24, 2013 – 9:00 am – noon
MedSci Vivarium and Annex
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Med Surge II
Friday, May 31, 2013 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
McGaugh Vivarium
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 – 9:00 am – noon
Gross Hall labs & vivarium
Thursday, June 6, 2013 – 9:00 am – noon
BioSci3 Vivarium, Bonney Vivarium, Bonney/Quershey Labs
To assist you with preparing for this inspection, the list below describes those areas to which the IACUC inspection teams will pay special attention:
1. Expired drugs and medical materials must be discarded or appropriately labeled and segregated from non-expired material (see the campus policy for more informationhttp://www.research.uci.edu/ora/acup/expireddrugs.htm )
2. All laboratory staff involved with the use of live animals should know what is in the approved protocols – what procedures are performed, whether anesthetics or analgesics are used, etc. Everyone in the lab must know where to find a copy of the most recent approved protocol documents (hard-copy or electronic).
3. Use of aseptic technique for survival surgeries, including proper sterilization of instruments (see the campus policy for aseptic rodent surgery, http://www.research.uci.edu/ora/acup/surgerypolicy.htm )
4. Controlled drug logs, surgical/post-operative/recovery records, breeding records and daily husbandry logs for housing variances must be current and available for review.
5. All personnel (including students) working within the laboratory must be enrolled in the EH & S Occupational Health Program by completing a Work Health History form on an annual basis. The form must be completed and resubmitted not less frequently than once per year, or when health status changes occur. For more information, please visit http://www.research.uci.edu/ora/acup/healthprogram.htm
6. Animal use space must be clean, orderly, and in satisfactory condition. Vivaria housing rooms and shared procedure spaces must not be used to store excess equipment or cages.
If you have questions regarding these inspections, please contact the IACUC Administrative Office, by telephone at (949) 824-8664 or (949) 824-8984 or via email at IACUC@uci.edu. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Please send all submissions for committee review to IACUC@uci.edu