Share the advice given by the AWERB to the establishment licence holder
Dear London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Please could you share the advice given by the AWERB to the establishment licence holder in the last 3 years specifically regarding replacements and alternative methods to animal testing. " We note that the university is required by law ASPA Schedule 3, Part 2, paragraph 6 (4) to keep records of any advice given by the AWERB.
Yours faithfully,
sharon stratford
LSHTM ServiceDesk
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Dear Sharon
Just to update you on your FOI request and to let you know we have
referred it to the necessary Team to respond to and we will come back to
you as soon as we have received information to respond to your request.
In the meantime, we also refer you to the following:
[1]https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researc...
Kind regards
Veena
Veena Sharma
Senior Legal Manager
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
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Dear Sharon
Further to my e-mail below and your recent FOI request, I am advised by
the relevant Team that due to the nature of the request, they will need
longer than the usual period of time to collate the information and to
respond and would therefore hope to respond to your request by 22^nd April
2024.
We will therefore be in touch again soon.
Kind regards
Veena
Veena Sharma
Senior Legal Manager
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
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From: Veena Sharma <[email address]>
Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024 at 21:10
To: [FOI #1095294 email]
<[FOI #1095294 email]>
Subject: Your FOI request
Dear Sharon
Just to update you on your FOI request and to let you know we have
referred it to the necessary Team to respond to and we will come back to
you as soon as we have received information to respond to your request.
In the meantime, we also refer you to the following:
[2]https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researc...
Kind regards
Veena
Veena Sharma
Senior Legal Manager
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
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LSHTM ServiceDesk
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Re: Freedom of Information request - Share the advice given by the AWERB
to the esta
Sharon Stratford via [FOI #1095294 email]
FOI reference 2403-0118.
16 April 2024.
Freedom of Information Response
Dear Sharon Stratford
We write in response to your freedom of information request to the London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which we received on 1
March 2024. We wrote to you on 15th March 2024 to inform you that due to
other matters we would respond to your request by 22 April 2024. Apologies
for a delayed response.
Your request
Please could you share the advice given by the AWERB to the establishment
licence holder in the last 3 years specifically regarding replacements and
alternative methods to animal testing. " We note that the university is
required by law ASPA Schedule 3, Part 2, paragraph 6 (4) to keep records
of any advice given by the AWERB.
Our response
We have handled your request in line with the Freedom of Information Act
2000, and we can confirm that we hold the information you have requested.
Please see our response below.
• The school’s PPL for Breeding Genetically Altered mice will not be
replaced when it expires.
• Consider cryopreservation as a method to preserve the unique mouse
strains.
• The NC3Rs regional manager, together with animal welfare staff, have
conducted institutional information campaigns on the promotion of the
NC3Rs research hub resource: “Research culture and the 3Rs”, the RSPCA
road map resource sheets, the RSPCA event on severe suffering, the
recent MRC policy and NC3Rs presentations on using both sexes, the
NC3Rs resources for experimental design, the NC3Rs new and updated
online mouse aggression resource and new e-learning modules on pain
and distress assessment.
• Recent BSF events have included refinements in mouse handling methods
and replacement topics usch as ‘Malaria transmission in the lab: no
mice needed”.
We hope the information provided is helpful to you.
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otherwise indicated. To re-use you must obtain written permission from
LSHTM. Please send your enquiry about the re-use of material to the
Archivist & Records Manager by email: [email address]
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Commissioner is available on the Commissioner's website
(http://www.ico.gov.uk/).
Yours sincerely,
Information Compliance Team
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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