BPRC housing and animal care procedures are in compliance with Dutch law on animal experiments, European directive 86/609/EEC, and with the "Standard for Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign Institutions", identification number A5539-01, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
All rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) used in this study were captive bred for research purposes and were housed at the BPRC facilities in compliance with the Dutch law on animal experiments, European directive 86/609/EEC, and with the Standard for Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign institutions, identification number A5539-01, provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Financial institutions must now have a U.S. taxpayer identification number from would-be customers in order to open an account in addition to a photo ID to prove their residency.
The study was approved by the Review Board Committee of our institution and by the Agencia Española del Medicamento (trial identification number AEM99/0145).
The information obtained for each patient visit included: patient's consultation date, unique identification number, date of birth, village, health institution, and diagnosis determined by the International Classification of Diseases 10 Th Revision (ICD-10 code).
The information collected on the cancer reporting cards included name, sex, birth date, cancer site, diagnosis basis, International Classification of Diseases-10th revision (ICD-10) code, date of diagnosis, cause of death, registered identification number, national identification number, and reporting hospital or medical institution.
The prospective study was approved by our institution's ethics committee (Ethik-Kommission an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Ebereferencels-Unumberität, reference number 079/2011MPG23, study identification number in the German Clinical Trials Register: DRKS00003273).
Whether identification numbers assigned to individuals by government institutions, or commercial organisations, are indirectly identifying depends on: how widely used that class of identification number is; and how easily accessible the additional information associated with the number is.
The manager of each institution will be asked to provide an anonymised list of their service users identifying each by a personal identification number and noting their gender.
Federal Identification Number: 13- 6066063.
That is the identification number for St . Vincent
