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Front Page: Project Information
Scientific Procedure Premises Licence (SPPL) Number
001: O’Brien Institute
013: St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne)
025: St Vincent’s Institute
120: University of Melbourne at St Vincent’s Health
326: Bionics Institute
01063: DSTC Course Melbourne
01069: Centre for Eye Research Australia
SPFL 128: Royal Australasian College Surgeons
BAW Purpose and Benefit Codes
Overall Purpose of the Project
1. The understanding of human or animal biology
2. Maintenance and improvement of human or animal health and welfare
3. Improvement of animal management or production
4. The achievement of educational objectives
5. Environmental objectives
6. Specified Animal Breeding Colony Group
BAW Benefit Code
1. Fundamental biology/physiology
2. Diseases-human
3. Disease-animal
4. Diseases-zoonotic
5. Environmental monitoring/ecology
6. Domestic animal management/production
7. Wildlife management/conservation
8. Vertebrate pest management
9. Production of biological products
10. Xenotransplantation
11. Development of techniques- remedial, surgical, diagnostic
12. Education (demonstration)
13. Training (student use of animals)
14. Regulatory product testing (e.g. vaccines, chemical, drug evaluation)
15. Specified Animal Breeding Colony group
Question 3: Experimental Procedures and Monitoring
BAW Impact
1. Observational study involving minor interference
2. Animal unconscious without recovery
3. Minor conscious intervention, no anaesthesia
4. Minor operative procedures with recovery
5. Surgery with recovery
6. Minor physiological challenge
7. Moderate to major physiological challenge
8. Death as an end point – MUST COMPLETE PART C FORM
9. Specified Animal Breeding Colony group (non-GM)
10. Specified Animal Breeding Colony group established GM line
BAW Part. Procedure
1. Attachment or insertion of devices for long term direct or telemetric monitoring
2. Aversive stimuli for behavioural training, or for inducing a state of stress integral to the
experiment
3. Burning or scalding
4. Gene manipulative technology
5. Immunomodulatory methods
6. Induction of infection
7. Induction of neoplasia
8. Induction of other disease model (e.g. diabetes, cardiac disease)
9. Interference with the central nervous system or sensory capacity or brain centres
controlling that capacity
10. In vivo production of monoclonal antibody
11. In vivo production of polyclonal antibody
12. Ionising radiation exposure
13. Neuromuscular blocking agents or electro-immobilisation
14. Ocular irritancy testing
15. Skin irritancy testing involving a chemical, or cosmetic, household, or industrial
preparation
16. Toxicity testing
17. Other procedure
18. SABL
19. Specified Animal Breeding Colony group
Level of Discomfort
None
Slight
Moderate
Severe