PIL AB - Methods of Humane Killing,
Health and Safety Questions
What is the significance of animal health status? How is it confirmed? - Correct
Answer ✔️✔️Animals from high quality breeding facilities will come with a
health status certidicant. Condirmed through health status certificate.
What does the health status certificate promise? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️That the animals will be specific pathogen free (SPF), virus antibody free (VAF)
and free of zoonosis
What is zoonosis? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Diseases that can cross species
What can you do if you suspect or want to check if an animal is has diseases. -
Correct Answer ✔️✔️These are sentinel animals. The animal is placed in an
environment and monitored to see if it has any disease
What are protected animals? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️All living vertebraes
other than man, and any living cephalopod (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus)
,When do mammals, birds and reptiles b come protected - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️When they reach the last third of their gestation period (day 14 for rats and
mice) or incubation period
When do fish and amphibians become protected - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️When they are capable of independent feeding
When do cephalopods become protected? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️As soon
as they hatch
What are the severity limits? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Mild, moderate,
severe, non-recovery
What are the 3Rs? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️replacement, reduction,
refinement
What are the three licences that are needed before any regulated procedure can
be performed? What is this the implementation of? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Procedure establishment licence
Procedure project licence
Procedure individual licence
, Implementation of animal (scientific procedures) act 1986
What is a procedure establishment licence - Correct Answer ✔️✔️The
establishment licence is purely rooms that you can perform surgery and hold
animals
What do these abbreviation on the PEL stand for for animals SA, LA, AQ, AV, EQU,
NHP - Correct Answer ✔️✔️SA = small animal
LA = large animal
AQ = aquatic species
AV = birds
EQU = equidae (horses, donkeys, mules, asses)
NHP = non-human primate
What do these abbreviation on the PEL stand for for how you can use rooms -
STH, LTH, NOH, SEP, NSEP - Correct Answer ✔️✔️STH = short term holding
LTH = long term holding
NOH = no overnight holding
SEP = sterile experimental procedures
Health and Safety Questions
What is the significance of animal health status? How is it confirmed? - Correct
Answer ✔️✔️Animals from high quality breeding facilities will come with a
health status certidicant. Condirmed through health status certificate.
What does the health status certificate promise? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️That the animals will be specific pathogen free (SPF), virus antibody free (VAF)
and free of zoonosis
What is zoonosis? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Diseases that can cross species
What can you do if you suspect or want to check if an animal is has diseases. -
Correct Answer ✔️✔️These are sentinel animals. The animal is placed in an
environment and monitored to see if it has any disease
What are protected animals? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️All living vertebraes
other than man, and any living cephalopod (octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus)
,When do mammals, birds and reptiles b come protected - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️When they reach the last third of their gestation period (day 14 for rats and
mice) or incubation period
When do fish and amphibians become protected - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️When they are capable of independent feeding
When do cephalopods become protected? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️As soon
as they hatch
What are the severity limits? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️Mild, moderate,
severe, non-recovery
What are the 3Rs? - Correct Answer ✔️✔️replacement, reduction,
refinement
What are the three licences that are needed before any regulated procedure can
be performed? What is this the implementation of? - Correct Answer ✔️✔
️Procedure establishment licence
Procedure project licence
Procedure individual licence
, Implementation of animal (scientific procedures) act 1986
What is a procedure establishment licence - Correct Answer ✔️✔️The
establishment licence is purely rooms that you can perform surgery and hold
animals
What do these abbreviation on the PEL stand for for animals SA, LA, AQ, AV, EQU,
NHP - Correct Answer ✔️✔️SA = small animal
LA = large animal
AQ = aquatic species
AV = birds
EQU = equidae (horses, donkeys, mules, asses)
NHP = non-human primate
What do these abbreviation on the PEL stand for for how you can use rooms -
STH, LTH, NOH, SEP, NSEP - Correct Answer ✔️✔️STH = short term holding
LTH = long term holding
NOH = no overnight holding
SEP = sterile experimental procedures
