The mission of the Office of Animal Resources (OAR) is to partner with the faculty and staff conducting animal based research to provide optimum animal health and husbandry of all research animals at the University of Missouri - Columbia.  
OAR recognizes that it is its responsibility to reduce experimental variable in animal-based research by providing for the highest standard of comfort, well-being and health care of all MU animals. We are committed to provide care to the standards required by federal regulatory and funding agencies and in accordance with the "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals". OAR will strive to provide a "world-class" animal care program by providing services that are 100% accurate, 100% of the time.
  Lon Dixon
Director - Office of Animal Resources

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