OneMonkey shares the concerns of International and National Scientific Community about use of animals in research, the welfare of the animals, and to minimize any discomfort or pain during animal experiments. In order to have an Institutional Mechanism to look into various aspects of humane handling and usage of and alternatives to animal experimentation, an ethics committee of total 11 persons under the chairmanship of our Director of Commercial Operations has been constituted.

This ethics committee is working to ensure that the in-house experiments conducted on animals are maintained in best possible environmental conditions. In addition, the ethics committee shall monitor and improve their housing, environment, feeding and veterinary care if additionally required. Furthermore, we maintain the highest standards of professionalism with regard to animals and biological preparations we supply to third parties.

We do, of course, fulfill all our legal obligations within the recognized geographic and jurisdictional areas that our subsidiaries operate.

Well-meaning governments and pressure groups draft any number of laws, standards, ethical guidelines and codes of conduct to impose on our industry. But while these rules are as clear and simple as possible, they cannot cover all contingencies and we believe it should be left to the judgment and discretion of individual companies and institutions to determine the extent of their ethical obligations.

Basic Ethical Guidelines we require our customers to observe where practical.

• Animal experiments should be undertaken only after due consideration of their relevance for human or animal health and the advancement of knowledge.
• The animal selected for an experiment should be of an appropriate species and quality, and minimum number should be used to obtain scientifically and statistically valid results.
• Investigators and other personnel should treat animals with kindness and should take proper care by avoiding or minimizing discomfort, distress or pain.
• Investigators should assume that all procedures which would cause pain in human beings may cause pain in other vertebrate species also (although more need to be known about the perception of the pain in animals).
• Procedures that may cause more than momentary pain or distress should be performed with appropriate sedation, analgesia or anaesthesia in accordance with accepted veterinary practice. Surgical or other painful procedures should not be performed on unanaesthetized animals.
• At the end of or when appropriate during an experiment, the animals that would otherwise suffer severe or chronic pain, distress, discomfort, or disablement that cannot be relieved or repaired should be painlessly killed under anaesthesia.
• Wherever possible procedures should be performed on the least cute of appropriate animals available.
• The best possible living conditions should be provided to animals used for research purpose. Normally the care of animals should be under the supervision of a veterinarian or a person having adequate experience in laboratory animal care.
• It is the responsibility of the investigator to ensure that personnel conducting the required procedures. Adequate opportunities have to be provided by the institution for in-service training for scientific and technical staff in this respect.
• In-vitro system to replace or reduce the number of animals should be used wherever possible.

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Further Information
Animal Rights
Association for the Assesment and Accreditiation of Laboratory Animal Care
The Great Ape Project