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# Animal Experimentation Ordinance

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## Animal Experimentation Ordinance

SR 455.163 — FSVO Ordinance of 12 April 2010 on Laboratory Animal Husbandry, the Production of Genetically Modified Animals and Methods of Animal Experimentation (Animal Experimentation Ordinance).

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## Preamble

The Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), on the basis of Articles 124 paragraph 2, 136 paragraph 2, 142 paragraph 4 and 209 paragraph 1 of the Animal Welfare Ordinance of 23 April 2008 (AniWO), ordains:

The name of this administrative unit was modified on 1 Jan. 2014 pursuant to Art. 16 para. 3 of the Publications Ordinance of 17 Nov. 2004 (SR 170.512.1). This change has been made throughout the text. SR 455.1

## Contents

1\. Scope — 1 article 2. Husbandry of Laboratory Animals — 7 articles 3. Production, Breeding and Housing of Genetically Modified Laboratory Animals and Mutants that have a Clinical Pathological Phenotype — 3 articles 4. Record and Documentation of Strain and Reporting Procedures — 12 articles 5. Definition of the Degree of Severity of Strain — 3 articles 6. Intercantonal Animal Experiments — 1 article 7. Applications and Reports concerning Laboratory Animal Facilities and Animal Experiments — 5 articles 8. Final Provisions — 2 articles

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