Abstract
It has increasingly become important that Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees operate in research institutions across the globe to ensure proper care and use of animals for scientific research to be fully considered ethical. This was born out of the animal liberation debates of the 1970s which incidentally coincided with the bioethical impetus. In the Republic of Korea, the Animal Protection Act was introduced in 1991, but oversight of laboratory animal care and use in the research, testing, and education environment by an appointed ethical committee has been applied since 2008. Across the globe, Animal Care and Use Committees function under extant government and institutional policies and laws; and their responsibilities include training programs. Using the Korean experience, this entry addresses the ethical issues related to animal welfare.
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Choe, B.I., Lee, G.H. (2015). Animal Welfare. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_23-1
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