[NHCOLL-L:5269] RE: life animals

[Bryant, James]

Interesting: "actual or potential threat to the collections or to public health". Could you be more specific? We have a small living collection here in Riverside, but nothing that fits these criteria except in the broadest sense. When I worked at the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian, it was notable that none of the live species we housed ever appeared outside the exhibit area, even in the adjacent entomology collection ranges.

James M. Bryant
Curator of Natural History
Museum Department, City of Riverside
3580 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 826-5273
(951) 369-4970 FAX
jbryant at riversideca.gov
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Subject: [NHCOLL-L:5268] life animals

Do any of the institutions on this list that have both live animals (including both vertebrates and invertebrates) housed in the same building as biological collections and/or exhibits have any defined categories of how the live animals are ranked or classified with respect to their actual or potential threat to the collections or to public health. I would be very interested to receive copies of such policies/protocols as we are in the process of assigning threat levels to the organisms that we have, or may have in the future, at our museum.

John Grehan
Dr. John R. Grehan
Director of Science and Research
Buffalo Museum of Science
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