The proceedings volume containing the edited texts of the papers etc presented at the 5th symposium of the FELASA meeting held in Brighton (UK) in June 1993 has been published A further 69 printed papers based on the posters displayed during the meeting are printed in this substantial book. The material is grouped under several headings - a number of which have obvious animal welfare interest, eg: Expression and relief of pain (5 papers) Planning better experiments (3 papers)