The animal house facility of ISF College
of Pharmacy, Moga, Punjab is registered with the Committee for the Purpose of
Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Ministry of
Environment, Forest & Climatic Change, Government of India for the education and breeding of small laboratory animals since
2017. The cross-contamination in a double-story building of the animal house facility
is controlled using a two-way corridor system. One floor of the building is
dedicated to the housing, breeding, and quarantine of small laboratory animals
like mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs with each animal species being housed
in a separate room. Each room is ventilated and the environment is kept under control with temperature (23±3°C), relative humidity (60±10 %), 12:12 h
light and dark cycle as per CPCSEA guidelines. The second floor of animal house
facility is meant for conducting the experiments on animals. Veterinary care is
provided by full time veterinarian. Animal house attendant takes care of
regular cleaning and disinfection of animal rooms, corridors, storage spaces
and other areas. The cages, water bottles and bedding are sterilized on regular
basis. Incinerator is used for waste disposal including animal carcass. The MoU
is signed with Medicare Biomedical Safety for disposal of biomedical waste. GLP
principles are adopted as standard operating procedures for routine chores. ISF
College of Pharmacy has provided well dimension animal house as per CPCSEA
guidelines for research and breeding purpose. College is in receipt of 5 years
CPCSEA registration. Accordingly, CPCSEA has established IAEC committee
which meet biannually for inspection.
Animal House has different rooms along with sterilization, air conditioning, handling, circulation facility with sanitation conditions as follows.
* 02 Research laboratories in animal house facility.
* Animal experimental room for Rabbits, Mice, Guinea pig and Wistar Rats
* Quarantine room
* Breeding room for Rabbits, Mice, Guinea pig and Wistar Rats.
* Room for animal feed* Washing room* Separate area is demarked for the disposal of used animal.
