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Ensuring ethical animal welfare research: Are more ethics review committees the solution?

Nielsen, Birte L.1  ; Golledge, Huw D. R.1 ; Chou, Jen-Yun2, 3 ; Camerlink, Irene4 ; Pongrácz, Péter5 ; Ceballos, Maria Camila6 ; Whittaker, Alexandra L.7 ; Olsson, I. Anna S.8 
1 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), The Old School, Wheathampstead, United Kingdom
2 Pig Development Department, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Moorepark, Ireland
3 Institute of Animal Welfare Science, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
4 Department of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland
5 Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
6 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
7 School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia
8 I3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.310
Type: Opinion, perspective
Keywords: ethics review; animal welfare science; harm-benefit analysis; ethics review committees; ethics approval; national regulations;
Nielsen, Birte L. 1; Golledge, Huw D. R. 1; Chou, Jen-Yun 2, 3; Camerlink, Irene 4; Pongrácz, Péter 5; Ceballos, Maria Camila 6; Whittaker, Alexandra L. 7; Olsson, I. Anna S. 8

1 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), The Old School, Wheathampstead, United Kingdom
2 Pig Development Department, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Moorepark, Ireland
3 Institute of Animal Welfare Science, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
4 Department of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland
5 Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
6 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
7 School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia
8 I3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Nielsen, Birte L.; Golledge, Huw D. R.; Chou, Jen-Yun; Camerlink, Irene; Pongrácz, Péter; Ceballos, Maria Camila; Whittaker, Alexandra L.; Olsson, I. Anna S. Ensuring ethical animal welfare research: Are more ethics review committees the solution?. Peer Community Journal, Volume 3 (2023), article  no. e73. doi : 10.24072/pcjournal.310. https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.310/

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