Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services specializes in
assisting institutions with the process of obtaining the Association
for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
International (AAALAC)
Accreditation from the development of a highly organized Program
Description through the Site Visit and Post Site Visit
Communication. We can assist in Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development and Program
development (Occupational Health and Safety, Training, ect.)
utilizing current industry Best Practices. We conduct third party
program and facility reviews to evaluate for compliance with
applicable regulations including Post Approval Monitoring and grant
congruency. We assist with Risk Assessments and Disaster Planning.
We can also serve on IACUCs and assist with IACUC and Investigator
training. We can assist with non-affiliated IACUC member placement.
Allied
Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services, as a collective, has an
education background focusing on laboratory animal medicine,
computer science, and business management. We have a diverse
background including being animal care technicians, IACUC
Chairpersons, and Principal Investigators, to management of
warehouses, homeowner’s associations, and entire laboratory animal
programs. We own biotechnology and computer consulting service
companies. In 1995 we co-founded a private school for 6th thru 12th
grades with an emphasis on biotechnology. We now serve on the Board
of Trustees of the school which has recently become a charter
school.
BACKGROUND
Lucinda A Haab,
RLATg has 25+ years experience in the laboratory animal facility
management field. She graduated with High Honors (4.0 GPA) from the
Veterinary Technology program at SUNY Delhi in 1985. For 23 years
she was the Director of Antibody Production, Director of Regulatory
Compliance and IACUC Chairperson at PRF&L (Pocono Rabbit Farm and
Laboratory) in Canadensis, PA. During that
time, AAALAC visited PRF&L
4 times over 12 years, the most recent being in November 2005. All
four AAALAC visits resulted in Full Accreditation with no further
suggestions for improvement. AAALAC site visitors would comment on
the well-written and organized Program Descriptions that were
submitted. Other companies began to seek out Lucinda and ask her
assistance in writing their Program Descriptions. This was how
Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services (ALACCS) was
founded in January 2006.
BIOGRAPHY
Lucinda A Haab, RLATg,
AAS
President of Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services
Mountainhome, PA
Ms Haab earned her AAS
degree in Veterinary Technology at the State University of New York
in Delhi, NY after completing two years as an Animal Bioscience
major at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA.
Ms Haab served as the founding Chairperson of Pocono Rabbit Farm and
Laboratory’s (PRF&L) institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
located in Canadensis, PA from 1992 until April of 2006. As of
November 2006 Ms Haab is a member of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics’ (a
Johnson and Johnson Company) IACUC. Ms Haab brings a wealth of
regulatory compliance, AAALAC accreditation, and current industry
“Best Practices” knowledge to the IACUC’s that she has or is
presently serving on. Both of the IACUC‘s that Ms Haab is/was a part
of main focus is on polyclonal and monoclonal antibody production.
However, Ms. Haab, as the President of Allied Laboratory Animal Care
Consulting Services, has successfully consulted with other
biotechnology companies that focus on medical device implants in dog
and swine, as well as geriatric rodent memory research involving
rodent surgery.
