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Animal Welfare Body

In addition to Animal Welfare Officers, there must be an Animal Welfare Body at facilities that conduct animal experiments; this is also legally required.

Members of the Animal Welfare Body at FLI are animal caretakers, scientists, animal welfare officer and heads of animal facilities. They support the Animal Welfare Officer in the fulfillment of the duties by jointly decide about measures to ensure and improve animal welfare at the FLI.

For example, we currently focus on the following topics:

  • Use of different environmental refinement in mouse and fish husbandry
  • Improvement of the handling of the animals
  • Replacing invasive genotyping methods with non-invasive methods
  • Research on pain assessment in fish.