USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS)
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Folder information
- Title:
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS)
- Description:
- This resource contains letters, reports, statements, and bills related to the USDA Plant Health Inspection Services’s regulation of the Animal Welfare Act. Material is especially focused on the regulation of animal welfare in air and surface transportation. It includes proposed revisions to the Animal Welfare Act, as well as informational material about standards of treatment and care for animals under the Act. It also includes information about laboratory animal standards and how to complete proper health checks. Many of the letters are written by Christine Stevens of the Animal Welfare Institute.
- Topics:
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Animal Protection
- Subjects:
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Animal welfare -- Law and legislation
Laboratory animals
Marine animals
Pets
Railroad travel
Veterinarians
- Original Format:
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Archival collection
- Item identifier:
- mc00344_118845_20201002_7555
- Created Date:
- circa to
- Names:
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United States. Department of Agriculture
more info on United States. Department of Agriculture
- Digital Project:
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Animal Turn
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Animal Welfare Institute Records 1930-2003 (MC00344) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- This resource was created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. CLIR's Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, which is generously supported by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports the creation of digital representations of unique content of high scholarly significance that will be discoverable and usable as elements of a coherent national collection.