# Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, Paragraph Table B

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

B. Methods for foetal, larval and embryonic forms
Animals for which appropriate
1.Overdose of an anaesthetic using a route and anaesthetic agent appropriate for the size, stage of development and species of animal.
All animals
2.Refrigeration, or disruption of membranes, or maceration in apparatus approved under appropriate slaughter legislation, or exposure to carbon dioxide in near 100% concentration until they are dead.
Birds Reptiles
3.Cooling of foetuses followed by immersion in cold tissue fixative.
Mice, Rats and Rabbits
4.Decapitation.
Mammals and Birds up to 50g.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/schedule/1/table/B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/schedule-1/table/B
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