HPRA REGULATORY UPDATE JUNE 25

Just reminding you that...as usual all regulatory updates are uploaded on the corresponding folder on SharePoint. Please have a good look at it.  APPLICATION FORMS HAVE BEEN UPDATED!!!! Please check them out before completing...you will save yourself some trouble!

I would also like to highlight in this regulatory update, the section on the "3Rs webinars and Training Events" See links below:

• Preclinical Rethinking
• 3Rs in musculoskeletal research
• From Neurons to Networks: Human Stem cell-based models....
• The Tea time Journey - Shaping the future of lab animal monitoring
• Art of reproducing experimental surgery in rodents
• EUROoCS: Organ on a Chip Summer School
• Responsible Research in Action
• CLAST: College of Laboratory Animal Science and Technology

HPRA 1st REGULATORY UPDATE of 2025

HPRA UPDATES:

 The HPRA has a brand new website, I will let you judge if you find it better or worse than the previous one!

While you are getting use to it, it might be worth considering to bookmark two URLs the "Make a Submission" and the "Regulation". The former send you to applications and forms and the latter to guidance documents.

Also note that the level of non compliances has increased and unfortunately they were mainly detected on inspections. Note that those are factors considered in the Establishment Risk Assessment (apologies for the use of this couple of words!!!)

There is a 3-day course of experimental design that will award each attendant 18 CPD points!!! Anybody tempted???

Please have a look at the regulatory update already uploaded on the LAPBRU USERS library on sharepoint. there are loads of CPD ideas and options listed in it.

ETPLAS

 

The Educational and Training Platform for Laboratory Animals is a non-profit European organization dedicated to raising and harmonizing education & training standards in Laboratory Animal Science.  A link to their website is on the side bar.

The HPRA supports the CPD hours allocation that Spanish Authorities have awarded to the EU Modules available on this site.