Animal research is extremely heavily regulated at the Federal, state and even the local level, by laws ranging from the Animal Welfare Act to the local laws on facility inspection. The links on this page will introduce you to the scope, depth and implementation of laws and regulations.

Researchers also follow the rules of its own organizations. Some companies and institutions post their animal policies on their websites. If you are interested in a particular organization, look on their website for their animal policies.

This page is under construction. When completed it will include articles and references that focus on the legal and regulatory issues for researchers and for society at large. In the meantime, you can find immense amounts of useful information on our Links page, described below.

Our main Links page has hundreds of sites organized into related groups for your convenience. The groups include regulatory and legal, scientific and educational, and lots of other interesting and useful Internet locations.