Table 2 Cost factors in animal research (list not exhaustive)
ACU/OCU staff members salaries |
Administration and IT |
Air filtration systems in the vivarium buildings |
Anaesthetics |
Analgesics |
Animal health diagnostic services and equipment |
Animal models (various) |
Animal transfer stations (change stations) |
Autoclaves |
Automated cage washing equipment |
Bedding (specialised types of bedding) |
Bedding disposal stations and units |
Biological work stations Blood analysis equipment |
Bottle fill stations |
Breeding imports and exports |
Cage card holders (various for different size and types of cage) |
Cage shelving |
Caging and cage trolleys (various for different sizes and types of species) |
Cleaning and scrub equipment and products (general) |
Cryostat equipment |
Data collection equipment |
Decapitators |
Diagnostic and monitoring equipment |
Dismembrators |
Energy costs |
Enrichment products |
Feeding equipment ( various sizes for different sizes of animals and species types) |
Feeds (specialised) |
Forklifts |
Handling gloves and clothing (specialised according to species) |
Heating and lighting equipment |
High-efficiency particulate air filtration systems |
Housing (specialised premises with airlock barriers between vivarium rooms) |
Husbandry facilities and equipment |
Imaging Xray and CAT |
Importation & Exportation costs |
Incubators |
Inhalation equipment |
Intensive care units (ICU) |
Lab technician specialised workwear |
Laryngoscope |
Load carts |
Microscopy |
Monitoring equipment |
Necropsy tables (various sizes) |
Plethysmometer |
Power lift |
Protective clothing for automated cage cleaning |
Respirators |
Restraint frames and jackets (customised according to species) |
Sanitation and garbage collection (general and specialist) |
Security staff salaries |
Sinks and tables |
Specialist feeds |
Specific pathogen free cage housing rooms (in addition to regular ones) |
Staff Training |
Stationery and recording equipment |
Sterile and germfree transportation equipment |
Sterilisers |
Surgical cleaning and scrub equipment and products |
Surgical equipment (i.e. cauterisation, homeothermic, stereotaxic, lighting) |
Surgical specialised workwear |
Surgical, blood and crematory waste services and equipment |
Syringe pumps |
Transportation (International & Domestic) |
Ultraviolet light-treated deionized water lines |
Urine analysis |
Urine and feaces ammonia levels monitoring equipment |
Vacuum units |
Ventilators |
Watering equipment (different sizes and types for different species) |
Water (for animal drinking, cage cleaning and vivarium and surgical cleaning) |
Weighing and scales equipment (different sizes for different species) |