| Question |
What time will YARC staff collect bar codes
from the Cage Card Depository? |
| Answer |
Cards will be collected at the beginning
of every day and will be labeled with the previous day's
date in order to allow for after hours deactivations. |
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| Question |
Who will put the bar-coded labels on newly
weaned or separated cages? |
| Answer |
Investigators are responsible for labeling
any cages they wean or separate. If they forget to place
bar-coded labels on new cages, YARC technicians will place
them on the cage cards and charge them $2.00 per label
for putting the labels on. YARC technicians will put bar-coded
labels on cages that they wean or separate. |
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| Question |
If newly weaned animals are going to be
euthanized, should a bar-coded label be placed on the
cage card? |
| Answer |
No, it is not necessary. |
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| Question |
What happens if the bar code is not removed
from a cage designated for euthanasia? |
| Answer |
The investigator will be charged for census
until the animals are taken to the euthanasia chamber
and the bar code is removed by a YARC technician or until
the room is next scanned (which ever occurs first). |
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| Question |
If a lab member is weaning mice for another
investigator, whose bar code label should be placed on
the cage card? |
| Answer |
The lab member should use a bar code for
the other investigator with the proper Principal Investigator
name, protocol number, per diem, and if applicable, the
correct PTAEO (account number). If labels are not available
for that investigator in the room, the lab member should
request new labels by contacting census personnel (5-6071),
or by faxing (7-5435) or by emailing (yarc.census@yale.edu)
the Bar Code Labels Form. |
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| Question |
If an investigator is changing a cage from
group housing to single housing, how will this be tracked? |
| Answer |
The investigator will place the group housing
bar code in the Cage Card Depository box and put on a
new single housing bar code label on the cage card. |
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| Question |
How do new vendor animal orders receive
bar codes? |
| Answer |
When new animals arrive, they automatically
receive a cage card that is bar-coded. The information
that is given when the animals are ordered is used for
census charging. The PTAEO, per diem, and protocol number
given at the time of ordering will be linked with that
cage of animals until that bar code is deposited in the
Cage Card Depository. |
