A New Cage Wash for Laboratory Animal Resources at Iowa State

爱荷华州实验动物资源的新笼式清洗

• 批准号: 10737441
• 负责人: Mary Sauer
• 金额: $ 22.09万
• 依托单位: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10737441
• 关键词: Accreditation; Animal Experimentation; Animals; Area; Biomedical Research; Canis familiaris; Caring; Cattle; Cavia; Chickens; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Dimensions; Educational process of instructing; Electricity; Emergency Situation; Employee; Ensure; Environment; Equipment; Faculty; Family suidae; Felis catus; Ferrets; Future; Goals; Goat; Grant; Hamsters; Health; Human Resources; Iowa; Laboratory Animals; Life; Maintenance; Manuals; Medical Research; Mission; Modeling; Mus; Neurosciences; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Performance; Positioning Attribute; Productivity; Protective Devices; Rattus; Recommendation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Rodent; Services; Sheep; Side; Site; Site Visit; Testing; Time; Training; Transportation; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vendor; Veterinary Medicine; Water; Water consumption; Wing; Workplace; animal care; animal facility; animal resource; college; cost; guide for the care and use of laboratory animals; improved; model building; nanovaccine; prevent; repaired; square foot

Project Summary/Abstract The overall objective of this application is to continue the mission of providing high quality healthy animals for research, teaching and testing, assuring care and use of animals consistent with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and provide a safe and healthy workplace for personnel who use or care for animals as well as maintaining AAALAC accreditation for the College of Veterinary Medicine. The College of Veterinary Medicine has been AAALAC accredited since 2011. The commitment of the Iowa State University to a high level of animal care is supported by our continued CVM AAALAC Accreditation. This project is for the installation of a new cage washer to replace a 31-year-old unit that has reached the end of its useful life. This cage wash services 30 faculty from various departments and colleges, all of whom have animals in Central or A-Wing animal facilities. During our most recent site visit in 2020, AAALAC stated that “the possibility of entrapment must be eliminated, and in the case of cage/rack washers, ideally an emergency shut-off mechanism that is easily accessible from anywhere inside the machine and which de- energizes the washer when activated should be in place”. Per the AAALAC position statement, it is recommended that de-energizer cords are placed on both sides of the cage wash. Our cage wash is so old that it has been difficult to find a vendor who will retrofit this cage wash with a second de-energizer cord. Our next AAALAC site visit will be in June of 2023, so to keep our AAALAC accreditation and to provide a safe working environment for our employees it is imperative that we purchase a new cage wash that comes with two de-energizer cords. The proposed new cagewash will prevent costly downtime when the current outdated model fails and will reduce operating costs and water usage significantly. These facilities house a variety of species used in teaching and research projects, including swine, dogs, rabbits, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, ferrets, chickens and rodents. The new cage washer will be installed in Central Animal Facility, which services both Central and A- Wing animal facilities. This “green” model will reduce hot and cold-water consumption by 40%. The new cage washer will provide a reliable service for cage washing and will eliminate the cost for repair and days of lost use that occur regularly with the current cage washer. Most importantly, it will ensure proper sanitization of equipment, helping to improve animal health and reduce research variables due to equipment borne fomites. The importance of replacing the 31-year-old current cage washer is significant. The new cage wash will have a longer internal chamber, allowing us to now clean large animal penning that was cleaned manually in the past.

项目概要/摘要 该应用程序的总体目标是继续履行提供高质量健康产品的使命 用于研究、教学和测试的动物，确保动物的护理和使用符合《动物指南》 实验动物的护理和使用，并为使用或护理人员提供安全健康的工作场所 动物学院并维持 AAALAC 认证。 自 2011 年以来，兽医学系已获得 AAALAC 认证。爱荷华州的承诺 我们持续获得 CVM AAALAC 认证，为大学提供高水平的动物护理服务提供支持。 该项目旨在安装一台新的笼式洗衣机，以取代一台已有 31 年历史的设备，该设备已达到 该清洗笼为来自各院系和学院的 30 名教职员工提供服务。 在我们 2020 年最近一次实地考察期间，AAALAC 在中央或 A 翼动物设施中饲养了动物。 指出“必须消除卡住的可能性，对于笼式/架式清洗机来说，理想的情况是 紧急关闭机构可以从机器内部的任何地方轻松操作，并且可以 根据 AAALAC 立场声明，启动时应为洗衣机通电”。 建议将断电线放置在笼洗的两侧 我们的笼洗太旧了。 很难找到一个供应商可以用我们的第二根断电线来改造这种笼式清洗装置。 下一次 AAALAC 现场考察将于 2023 年 6 月进行，以便保持我们的 AAALAC 认证并提供安全的环境 为了我们员工的工作环境，我们必须购买一个新的笼子清洗装置， 所提议的新笼清洗将防止电流过时时造成代价高昂的停机。 模型失败了，将显着降低运营成本和用水量。这些设施容纳了各种设施。 用于教学和研究项目的物种，包括猪、狗、兔、猫、仓鼠、豚鼠、 牛、绵羊、山羊、雪貂、鸡和啮齿动物。 新的笼式清洗机将安装在中央动物设施中，为中央和 A- 翼动物设施。这种“绿色”模式将减少 40% 的热水和冷水消耗。 清洗机将为笼子清洗提供可靠的服务，并消除维修成本和损失天数 使用当前的笼式清洗机定期进行最重要的是，它将确保适当的消毒。 设备，有助于改善动物健康并减少因设备传播污染物而造成的研究变量。 更换已有 31 年历史的笼式清洗机非常重要。新的笼式清洗机将具有更长的使用寿命。 更长的内室，使我们现在能够清洁过去需要手动清洁的大型动物围栏。