The 3Rs
The principle of the 3Rs (Refinement, Reduction, and Replacement) Is an ethical framework for improving animal welfare. Here at Surrey Diagnostics we strive to incorporate the 3Rs in our health screening services. This can most evidently be seen in our Enviromental Health Monitoring panels. Here we provide a variety of options for implementing the 3Rs such as Sentinel-Free Diagnostics which reduces the need for sentinels to be kept as well as options such as our P3 panel which provides a snapshot of the animals health from the faeces refining methods by not needing to handle the animal for anything invasive.
There are also a variety of sample types accepted for many of our animal health monitoring panels. For example in our aquatics panel we can test tank sludge for a variety of pathogens thus the need for direct animal sampling can be replaced in some circumstances.