HUMANITARIAN FINALIZATION IN ANIMALS SUBJECTED TO SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1594372410049

• Palavras-chave: Degree of Severity; Humanitarian endpoints; Animals, Scientific research.

• Keywords: Degree of Severity; Humanitarian endpoints; Animals, Scientific research.

• Abstract:

  Humane termination aims to minimize the distress, pain or suffering of animals used in research, ending the procedure or experiment in order to avoid unnecessary suffering of the animal, without the loss of data for the research. Every research protocol must contain descriptions of appropriate end points for the animal species in use. 

  The Humane Endpoint protocols and the tables of degrees of severity of the procedures are of paramount importance, both for the ethical aspect and for refining the results of research carried out on laboratory animals, and must be prepared jointly by the teams responsible for the design and maintenance of the animals during the research period, with the data obtained being published for access by the scientific community, helping to disseminate such practices, as well as helping to develop new procedures.