National Consensus Platform for the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animal Experiments

Secretary: Adrian Smith

adrian.smith@norecopa.no

www.norecopa.no

Norecopa

Industry

Regulators

Research

Animalwelfare

www.ecopa.eu

European Consensus-Platform for Alternatives

ecopa supports the establishment of National Consensus Platforms (NCPs) where all 4 stakeholders are equally represented:

Norecopa is a member of ecopa

Norecopa:

• is an independent member organisation with its own Board• receives basic financial support from the Ministry of

Agriculture and Food for the secretarial position• maintains a website with 3R resources• arranges consensus meetings on implementation of the 3Rs• issues position statements• runs projects in collaboration with the Research Council of

Norway• issues a newsletter 8-9 times a year• is on Facebook• will arrange a FRAME Training School on Experimental

Design and Statistical Analysis in February 2016

www.norecopa.no

International consensus meetings

Harmonisation of the Care and Use of:Fish (2005)Wildlife (2008)Fish (2009)Agricultural animals (2012)

http://norecopa.no/consensus-meetings

All presentations and consensus statements are on the internet: meant to be a lasting resource

Newsletter8-9 times a year

http://norecopa.no/nyhetsbrev

Broad interest for the newsletter although it is in

Norwegian!

Facebook (English & Norwegian text)

https://www.facebook.com/Norecopa

To subscribe: http://norecopa.no/meld-deg-pa-nyhetsbrevet

AJ Smith & T Allen, 2005

The use of Databases, Information Centres and Guidelines when planning research that may involve animals

Animal Welfare, 14 (4): 347-359

http://oslovet.norecopa.no/SmithAllen.pdf

3R Guidewww.3RGuide.info

This led to the construction of:

search.norecopa.no

This led in turn to the construction of a new search engine for Norecopa’s 3 databases:

Guidance on the severity classification of procedures involving fish

Report from a Working Groupconvened by Norecopa

Designed to be a supplement to the EU Working Group report on the same subject, which most relevant for

traditional lab animals(http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/

lab_animals/pdf/report_ewg.pdf)

P Hawkins, N Dennison, G Goodman, S Hetherington,S Llywelyn-Jones, K Ryder and AJ Smith

Laboratory Animals, 45: 219-224, 2011www.norecopa.no/categories

Some Position Statements and Guidelines from Norecopa

• Food deprivation• Toe clipping• Pain relief• Fin clipping of fish• Biometric methods of

identification• Methods for identification of

birds

http://norecopa.no/position-statements