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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS), 1970s-1980s

Animal Welfare Institute Records 1930-2003 (MC00344)
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Folder information

Title:
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS), 1970s-1980s
Description:
This resource contains news reports, newspaper clippings, and letters related to the USDA Plant Health Inspection Service’s regulation of the Animal Welfare Act. Material includes news releases and updates from the USDA Plant Health Inspection Services on issues such as animal health programs, regulations on pain relief for laboratory animals, and animal importation regulations. Other material includes newspaper clippings, clippings from the Congressional Record, and letters related to animal welfare and the Animal Welfare Act.
Topics:
Animal Protection
Subjects:
Animal breeding
Animal cages
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Animal welfare -- Law and legislation
Dogs
Environmentalism
Horses
Laboratory animals
Livestock
Poultry industry
Original Format:
Archival collection
Item identifier:
mc00344_118847_20201002_7305
Author:
United States. Department of Agriculture more info on United States. Department of Agriculture 
Author:
United States. Congress more info on United States. Congress 
Created Date:
circa to
Genre:
Articles
Congressional records
Correspondence
Names:
United States. Department of Agriculture more info on United States. Department of Agriculture 
Digital Project:
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:
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Rights:
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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.