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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, must follow instructions in the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals,” but for the first time in more than 10 years, some of the directives may change.
The Institute for Laboratory Animal Research is planning updates of the guide and will welcome public opinion in an open forum at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago on Friday from 9 a.m.-noon.
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