Animal Welfare Information Center Bulletin

Excerpt from Animal Welfare Information Center Bulletin, Vol. 12: Summer 2004 Where possible traditional food and water restriction paradigms should be replaced by reward paradigms and only if this is found, or is known, to be inappropriate should restriction paradigms be considered. As a general rule, when undertaken for a scientific purpose, all food re striction should be kept to the absolute minimum required to achieve the scientific objective. Project Licence author ity which clearly justifies the work and the benefits that should result will be required for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL) in Beltsville, Maryland. The AWIC is mandated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) to provide information for improved animal care and use in research, testing, teaching, and exhibition.