Animal Care
To use vertebrate animals in the laboratory or in the
field requires approval from the university's Institutional Animal Care
and Use Committee (IACUC).
Approval is based on review of an animal use protocol and typically
requires 3-4 weeks. All animal users must also submit a Risk Assessment
to the office of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) and must take an online training course ("Working
with the UF IACUC).
It would be a major violation of federal regulations to keep any
vertebrate animal anywhere on campus for any length of time without
IACUC approval.