Guidelines for the Humane Transportation of Research Animals, NRC, 2006. 
Summary & Chapter 1 Introduction pp. 1-10
QUESTIONS:
1.	Why have most foreign and domestic airlines implemented a ban on transporting NHPs destined for research?
a.	Cost of PPE and training
b.	Zoonoses
c.	Negative reactions of passengers
d.	Cost of live animal transportation
e.	Pressures from animal rights activists
f.	All of the above.
2.	What is an overshipper?
3.	How many federal agencies have oversight authority over various aspects of the research animal transportation process?
4.	Importation of NHPs is tracked through what federal division?
5.	What are the 3 major cities through which most NHPs are imported into the US?
6.	Are public records maintained on transportation between research institutions?
7.	Where does the USDA maintain a list of registered carriers and handlers?

ANSWERS:
1.	F – All of the above.
2.	A closed, environmentally controlled container into which a standard primary enclosure is loaded in order to prevent zoonotic exposure.
3.	Five
4.	The CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
5.	Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago
6.	No
7.	The APHIS website. Look under Animal Care and click on “Publications and Reports” (right hand column). Under Electronic Freedom of Information Act Reports click on the list of active licensed and registered facilities.
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