Avoid Suspension of Animal Activities
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Your IACUC can suspend your project if it finds serious or continuing noncompliance
with PHS policy or your institution's assurance or deviations from the approved protocol or the Guide
for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
If you have a subaward agreement, noncompliance at the subaward
organization can also provoke a suspension. See the Subawards (Consortium Agreements) for Grants SOP for more information.
Your IACUC will convey its reasons for a suspension to the institutional
official for animal welfare, who will take corrective measures
and report the situation to OLAW.
OLAW can withdraw approval of your institution's assurance, though
this is extremely rare. Should this happen, your institution would
become ineligible for spending NIH funds on research activities
involving animals, and NIAID may seek to recover its monies. NIH
may allow expenditures for the maintenance and care of animals.
OLAW can also place restrictions on an institution's assurance
until compliance problems are fully resolved. OLAW always emphasizes
corrective rather than punitive actions and will only restrict or
withdraw approval of an assurance if an institution's efforts to
correct its problems are unsuccessful.
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