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CPCSEA and IAEC? Roles and functions of CPCSEA and IAEC.

         CPCSEA

The CPCSEA refers to “The Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA)”. The Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) is a constitutional board, which is recognized under Chapter 4, Section 15(1) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. CPCSEA guidelines aim to stimulate the humane care of animals used in biomedical and behavioural investigation and testing with the basic objective of providing provisions that will improve animal well-being, quality in the pursuit of improvement of biological information is significant to humans and animals.

CPCSEA aims to confirm that animals are not exposed to unnecessary pains or suffering before, during or after the performance of experimentations on them. For this purpose, under the deputized powers, the Committee framed the ‘Breeding of and Experiments on Animals (Control and Supervision) Rules, 1998’ which were revised in 2001 and then in 2006, to standardize the research on animals.

Functions or roles of CPCSEA: -

·         Registration of establishments conducting animal experimentation or breeding of animals for this purpose.

·         Selection and assignment of nominees for the Institutional Animal Ethics Committees of the registered establishments.

·         Approval of Animal House Facilities based on reports of inspections conducted by CPCSEA.

·         Authorization for conducting experiments by use of animals.

·         Endorsement for import of animals for use in experiments.

·         Action against institutions in case of violation of any authorized norm/stipulation.

·         Organize training programmes for the Nominees of CPCSEA.

·         Conduct & support conferences or workshops on animal ethics.


IAEC: -

IAEC stands for Institutional Animal Ethics Committee. This is an indigenous body, recognized by CPCSEA, which has been authorized to permit experimentations on small animals through a revision in guidelines for Breeding and Experiments on Animals (Control and Supervision) in the year 2006.

IAEC evaluate and support all types of research proposals involving small animal experimentation before the start of the study. For the study on large animals, the case is essential to be forwarded to CPCSEA in an arranged manner with the approval of IAEC.

Composition of IAEC: -

1.      IAEC shall consist of 5 (Five) names (all from science contextual with one Veterinarian). The alignment should be as under:

¾    A Biological Scientist.

¾    Two Scientists from different biological disciplines.

¾    A Veterinarian involved in the care of Animals.

¾    Scientist In-Charge of Animal House Facility.

2.      The institution is required to upload the biodata and agreement letter of proposed IAEC members in a single PDF file.

3.      The Chairman of the IAEC (mostly Head of the Institution / Department) and Member Secretary need to be nominated by the institution from the above five members.

4.      Other members of the IAEC are. The main nominee, Link nominee, Scientist from outside and the socially aware nominee will be nominated by CPCSEA on receiving the above configuration of IAEC from the institution.

5.      At least half of the members are necessary to be replaced at the time of reconstitution of IAEC.

6.      The validity of IAEC is for 3 years.

7.      The institution shall apply in advance (15 days) for reconstitution before the expiry of the IAEC.

According to Rule 13 of the “Breeding of and Experiments on Animals” (Control and Supervision) Rules 1998, as revised, IAEC must be re-formed every three years. The main duty of a person who has been designated to represent the CPCSEA on an IAEC is the well-being and welfare of the animals housed or retained for experiments/breeding. With this in mind, the nominee should be aware of the rules central housing, experiments and after the maintenance of the animals. It is also authoritative that the nominee maintains the self-respect of the CPCSEA at all times. 



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