Thursday, March 29, 2007
AVMA Names DeHaven
Dr. Ron DeHaven, administrator of the USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), has been named the new executive vice president at the American Veterinary Medical Association. With more than 25 years of public health experience, DeHaven will succeed Dr. Bruce Little, retiring this year after service as executive vice president since 1996.
10th Brazilian Congress
The Brazilian Association for Laboratory Animal Science hosted the 10th Brazilian Congress on Laboratory Animal Science, 6th International Congress on Laboratory Animal Science and 5th Meeting of Mercosul Researchers in Sao Paulo March 19-21. The theme was "Animal Experimentation and the Future of Biomedical Research."
From left: Ann Turner, executive director of AALAS; Harry Rozmiarek of ICLAS; Sylvia Ortiz, President of COBEA; Marcel Frajblat, Incoming President of COBEA; and Jim Swearengen, AAALAC, Int.
From left: Ann Turner, executive director of AALAS; Harry Rozmiarek of ICLAS; Sylvia Ortiz, President of COBEA; Marcel Frajblat, Incoming President of COBEA; and Jim Swearengen, AAALAC, Int.Friday, March 23, 2007
Pet Food Recall Update
From the AVMA
The AVMA has been closely monitoring the recent pet food recall issued by the FDA and the overwhelming number of media reports it has generated. As a result, you may be getting inquiries about this from the general public or seeing patients potentially affected by ingestion of the recalled products.
As a service to our members, the Association has compiled and continues to constantly update resources for veterinarians and the general public on the AVMA Web site at http://www.avma.org.
The resources can be accessed from the home page by clicking on "Pet Food Recall," or by going directly to http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/default.asp.
For veterinarians, these resources include:
* A complete list of recalled products
* Emerging news about the possible causative agent(s)
* Data from the Animal Medical Center of New York City
* Up to the minute information from the companies and federal agencies affected by this recall
* Guidelines for veterinarians from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
* A fact sheet written specifically for veterinarians
* A checklist for dealing with suspected contaminated food from JAVMA
In addition, the AVMA has made a concerted effort to share all that it knows about the recall with the public to help reduce unwarranted fear.
If you haven't already, please visit the Web site, and check back for updates. The AVMA continues to expand and refresh these materials as new information becomes available.
The AVMA has been closely monitoring the recent pet food recall issued by the FDA and the overwhelming number of media reports it has generated. As a result, you may be getting inquiries about this from the general public or seeing patients potentially affected by ingestion of the recalled products.
As a service to our members, the Association has compiled and continues to constantly update resources for veterinarians and the general public on the AVMA Web site at http://www.avma.org.
The resources can be accessed from the home page by clicking on "Pet Food Recall," or by going directly to http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/default.asp.
For veterinarians, these resources include:
* A complete list of recalled products
* Emerging news about the possible causative agent(s)
* Data from the Animal Medical Center of New York City
* Up to the minute information from the companies and federal agencies affected by this recall
* Guidelines for veterinarians from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
* A fact sheet written specifically for veterinarians
* A checklist for dealing with suspected contaminated food from JAVMA
In addition, the AVMA has made a concerted effort to share all that it knows about the recall with the public to help reduce unwarranted fear.
If you haven't already, please visit the Web site, and check back for updates. The AVMA continues to expand and refresh these materials as new information becomes available.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
James E. Corbin (1921-2007)
Dr. James E. Corbin, 1972 AALAS president and the 2004 Griffin Award winner, passed away
Dr. Corbin’s distinguished career in laboratory animal science spanned five decades, including a 19-year tenure at Ralston Purina Company, where he played a leading role in developing the Purina pet foods that are now known and used by consumers worldwide. In addition to his pioneering advances in animal nutrition and nourishment, Dr. Corbin’s professional life has also been characterized by active participation in over a dozen science organizations and associations. Notable positions include his former presidency of AALAS, his past committee memberships on behalf of such government agencies as the National Research Council and the FDA, and his most recent status as Fellow of the American Society of Animal Science. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the
In recognition of his many contributions, a memorial scholarship fund is being established—the Dr. James B. Corbin Companion Animal Biology Scholarship—for students in the
JAALAS Wins Award
The September 2006 issue of JAALAS won the Association TRENDS Gold Award. Association TRENDS is the national newspaper for association executives and suppliers for the latest news, information and trends in association management for the professional staff of international, national, state, regional and local voluntary organizations.
Dr. Linda Toth is editor in chief of JAALAS, and Dr. Susan Compton is associate editor.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Flying Snake
Did you know? The paradise tree snake is one of the smaller flying snakes and the best glider. It’s been known to travel a distance up to 330 feet in the air. You can discover more fascinating facts like this at National Geographic. http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/animals/a-to-z.html
Monday, March 19, 2007
New Version of IACUC.org
The new version of the IACUC.ORG website has been launched. The site provides resources to anyone interested in the functions of an institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC). An IACUC is an ethical committee in place at every U.S. research institution (universities, pharmaceutical companies, etc.) with regulatory oversight by the USDA and the NIH. The people who browse this site are often new IACUC members or researchers learning about their IACUC.
TriBranch Symposium 2007
The Delaware Valley Branch is hosting the TriBranch Symposium 2007 at the Atlantic City (NJ) convention center June 10-12. The preliminary program, abstracts for posters, and registration information may be found at http://www.tribranch.org/prelim07.html
Friday, March 9, 2007
CTAD at the AALAS National Office
Members of the Committee on Technician Awareness and Development, chaired by Deb Lust, met in Memphis March 9-10 to plan for a variety of upcoming activities.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
March 2007 JAALAS Now Available
View abstracts and download articles (login required) at http://www.aalas.org/pdfUtility.aspx?pdf=currentCT.
BIOLOGY
Variation in Organ Volumes of Matched BALB/c Mice by Microcomputed Tomography Analysis
Robin J Kastenmayer and Kathy A Perdue
Effect of Method of Euthanasia on Sperm Motility of Mature Sprague-Dawley Rats
Shannon A Stutler, Eric W Johnson, Kenneth R Still, David J Schaeffer, Rex A Hess, and Darryl P Arfsten
Discrimination of C57BL/6J Rj and 129S2/SvPasCrl Inbred Mouse Strains by Use of Simple Sequence Length Polymorphisms
Celine Lamacchia, Gaby Palmer, and Cem Gabay
Genomic Comparison of Lewis and Wistar-Furth Rat Substrains by Use of Microsatellite Markers
Ralph J Callicott, Scott T Ballard, and James E Womack
Anesthesia for Cardiovascular Interventions and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pigs
Gernot M Kaiser, Frank Breuckmann, Stephanie Aker, Holger Eggebrecht, Hilmar Kuehl, Raimund Erbel, Nils R Fruhauf, Christoph E Broelsch, and Harald H Quick
FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Use of Environmentally Enriched Housing for Rats with Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Standardization
Darlene A Burke, David SK Magnuson, Christine D Nunn, Kimberly G Fentress, Mary L Wilson, Alice H Shum-Siu, Meika C Moore, Logan E Turner, William W King, and Stephen M Onifer
Efficacy of Fenbendazole and Milbemycin Oxime for Treating Baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) Infected with Trichuris trichiura
Mason V Reichard, Roman F Wolf, David W Carey, Jennifer Jane Garrett, and Heather A Briscoe
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE
Strategies for Refinement of Abdominal Device Implantation in Mice: Strain, Carboxymethylcellulose, Thermal Support, and Atipamezole
Nancy A Johnston, Christine Bosgraaf, Lisa Cox, Joel Reichensperger, Steven Verhulst, Calvin Patten Jr, and Linda A Toth
A Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction Based on the gyrB Gene Sequence and Subsequent Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Pasteurella pneumotropica Isolates from Laboratory Mice
Nobuhito Hayashimoto, Masami Ueno, Akira Takakura, and Toshio Itoh
Complete Blood Count, Clinical Chemistry, and Serology Profile by Using a Single Tube of Whole Blood from Mice
Charles E Wiedmeyer, Dawn Ruben, and Craig Franklin
Automated Mouse Euthanasia in an Individually Ventilated Caging System: System Development and Assessment
Alyssa R McIntyre, Robert A Drummond, Elyn R Riedel, and Neil S Lipman
Comparison of Cardiovascular Effects of Tiletamine-Zolazepam, Pentobarbital, and Ketamine-Xylazine in Male Rats
Dhanonjoy C Saha, Animita C Saha, Gautam Malik, Mark E Astiz, and Eric C Rackow
The Evaluation of Whole-body Plethysmography as a Semiautomated Method for Analysis of Emesis in the House Musk Shrew (Suncus murinus)
Nobuhiko Tashiro, Masanori Kataoka, Kazunori Ozawa, and Takuya Ikeda
CASE REPORTS
Epistylididae ectoparasites in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)
Kathleen R Pritchett and George E Sanders
Uterine Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumor in an African Green Monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)
David Chu, Ie-Ming Shih, Mary Knezevich, and Sachiv Sheth
PUBLIC STATEMENT
Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Pain in Rodents and Rabbits
ACLAM
BIOLOGY
Variation in Organ Volumes of Matched BALB/c Mice by Microcomputed Tomography Analysis
Robin J Kastenmayer and Kathy A Perdue
Effect of Method of Euthanasia on Sperm Motility of Mature Sprague-Dawley Rats
Shannon A Stutler, Eric W Johnson, Kenneth R Still, David J Schaeffer, Rex A Hess, and Darryl P Arfsten
Discrimination of C57BL/6J Rj and 129S2/SvPasCrl Inbred Mouse Strains by Use of Simple Sequence Length Polymorphisms
Celine Lamacchia, Gaby Palmer, and Cem Gabay
Genomic Comparison of Lewis and Wistar-Furth Rat Substrains by Use of Microsatellite Markers
Ralph J Callicott, Scott T Ballard, and James E Womack
Anesthesia for Cardiovascular Interventions and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pigs
Gernot M Kaiser, Frank Breuckmann, Stephanie Aker, Holger Eggebrecht, Hilmar Kuehl, Raimund Erbel, Nils R Fruhauf, Christoph E Broelsch, and Harald H Quick
FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Use of Environmentally Enriched Housing for Rats with Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Standardization
Darlene A Burke, David SK Magnuson, Christine D Nunn, Kimberly G Fentress, Mary L Wilson, Alice H Shum-Siu, Meika C Moore, Logan E Turner, William W King, and Stephen M Onifer
Efficacy of Fenbendazole and Milbemycin Oxime for Treating Baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) Infected with Trichuris trichiura
Mason V Reichard, Roman F Wolf, David W Carey, Jennifer Jane Garrett, and Heather A Briscoe
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE
Strategies for Refinement of Abdominal Device Implantation in Mice: Strain, Carboxymethylcellulose, Thermal Support, and Atipamezole
Nancy A Johnston, Christine Bosgraaf, Lisa Cox, Joel Reichensperger, Steven Verhulst, Calvin Patten Jr, and Linda A Toth
A Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction Based on the gyrB Gene Sequence and Subsequent Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Pasteurella pneumotropica Isolates from Laboratory Mice
Nobuhito Hayashimoto, Masami Ueno, Akira Takakura, and Toshio Itoh
Complete Blood Count, Clinical Chemistry, and Serology Profile by Using a Single Tube of Whole Blood from Mice
Charles E Wiedmeyer, Dawn Ruben, and Craig Franklin
Automated Mouse Euthanasia in an Individually Ventilated Caging System: System Development and Assessment
Alyssa R McIntyre, Robert A Drummond, Elyn R Riedel, and Neil S Lipman
Comparison of Cardiovascular Effects of Tiletamine-Zolazepam, Pentobarbital, and Ketamine-Xylazine in Male Rats
Dhanonjoy C Saha, Animita C Saha, Gautam Malik, Mark E Astiz, and Eric C Rackow
The Evaluation of Whole-body Plethysmography as a Semiautomated Method for Analysis of Emesis in the House Musk Shrew (Suncus murinus)
Nobuhiko Tashiro, Masanori Kataoka, Kazunori Ozawa, and Takuya Ikeda
CASE REPORTS
Epistylididae ectoparasites in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)
Kathleen R Pritchett and George E Sanders
Uterine Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumor in an African Green Monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)
David Chu, Ie-Ming Shih, Mary Knezevich, and Sachiv Sheth
PUBLIC STATEMENT
Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Pain in Rodents and Rabbits
ACLAM
Monday, March 5, 2007
Sixth World Congress
The Sixth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences is scheduled to be held August 21-25, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. For more information about the Congress and program submission forms, go to http://www.ech.co.jp/wc6/index.html. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31st.
New Law for Tax Exempt Organizations
In August of 2006 Congress enacted and the President signed the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
The principle change made by this law, and one that will affect all Branches that have received a tax exempt letter from the IRS (qualifying the Branch as a 501(c)(3) organization) is that as of the year 2008 all organizations recognized as being exempt from Federal taxes by the IRS will be required to make an annual filing with the IRS. Prior to the enactment of this law, tax exempt organizations with annual income below $25,000 (from dues, meetings, exhibits or whatever) had no filing requirement. Organizations with income exceeding $25,000 always have been and will still be required to file an annual Form 990 (IRS Form 990, Return of an Organization Exempt from Tax).
Another provision of this law that may affect those Branches that file Unrelated Business Income (UBI) Forms with their annual 990 tax form (IRS Form 990-T, Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return) is that they are now required to have this form available for public inspection as well as their 990s. (Advertising income in publications is probably the main source of UBI for tax exempts, including Branches.)
The changes made by this recent law for organizations that have received an exemption letter from the IRS pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code can be found at www.irs.gov. Click on Charities and Religious Organizations and once there click on “New Law Revises EO Tax Rules.”
As of this date, the IRS has not announced what will be required in the “annual notice” that those organizations with less than $25,000 in income will have to file as of 2008. The IRS website states that what will be required will be posted “soon.”
If your branch is filing a Form 990, it is recommended that your accountant or whoever is filing the 990 review this website.
As soon as the IRS posts its requirements for the Annual Notice AALAS will pass these on to the Branches.
The principle change made by this law, and one that will affect all Branches that have received a tax exempt letter from the IRS (qualifying the Branch as a 501(c)(3) organization) is that as of the year 2008 all organizations recognized as being exempt from Federal taxes by the IRS will be required to make an annual filing with the IRS. Prior to the enactment of this law, tax exempt organizations with annual income below $25,000 (from dues, meetings, exhibits or whatever) had no filing requirement. Organizations with income exceeding $25,000 always have been and will still be required to file an annual Form 990 (IRS Form 990, Return of an Organization Exempt from Tax).
Another provision of this law that may affect those Branches that file Unrelated Business Income (UBI) Forms with their annual 990 tax form (IRS Form 990-T, Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return) is that they are now required to have this form available for public inspection as well as their 990s. (Advertising income in publications is probably the main source of UBI for tax exempts, including Branches.)
The changes made by this recent law for organizations that have received an exemption letter from the IRS pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code can be found at www.irs.gov. Click on Charities and Religious Organizations and once there click on “New Law Revises EO Tax Rules.”
As of this date, the IRS has not announced what will be required in the “annual notice” that those organizations with less than $25,000 in income will have to file as of 2008. The IRS website states that what will be required will be posted “soon.”
If your branch is filing a Form 990, it is recommended that your accountant or whoever is filing the 990 review this website.
As soon as the IRS posts its requirements for the Annual Notice AALAS will pass these on to the Branches.
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