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Federal Select Agent List & Toxin Exemptions
Does your lab possess any of the agents or toxins listed here? If so, determine which set of procedures you must follow.
Labs possessing select agent toxin quantities in excess of the amounts listed below or any other select agent are subject to federal select agent registration and regulations and must follow the University's Procedures for Labs Working with Federally Regulated Select Agents.
Toxin quantities, per principal investigator, not exceeding the amounts shown below are exempt from federal select agent registration and regulations. However, labs using or possessing federally exempt quantities of select agent toxins must follow the University’s Procedures for Labs Working with Federally Exempt Quantities of Select Agents.
For additional exemptions, see CDC's Select Agent Program Notification of Exclusion.
HHS NON-OVERLAP SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
Coccidioides posadasii
Ebola viruses
Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (Herpes B virus)
Lassa fever virus
Marburg virus
Monkeypox virus
Rickettsia prowazekii
Rickettsia rickettsii
South American haemorrhagic fever viruses:
- Junin
- Machupo
- Sabia
- Flexal
- Guanarito
Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses:
- Central European tick-borne encephalitis
- Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis
- Russian spring and summer encephalitis
- Kyasanur forest disease
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever
Variola major virus (Smallpox virus)
Variola minor virus (Alastrim)
Yersinia pestis
Abrin (100 mg)
Conotoxins (100 mg)
Diacetoxyscirpenol (1000 mg)
Ricin (100 mg)
Saxitoxin (100 mg)
Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins (100 mg)
Tetrodotoxin (100 mg)
Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all eight gene segments (Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus)
HIGH CONSEQUENCE LIVESTOCK PATHOGENS AND TOXINS/SELECT AGENTS (OVERLAP AGENTS)
Bacillus anthracis
Brucella abortus
Brucella melitensis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)
Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
Coccidioides immitis
Coxiella burnetii
Eastern equine encephalitis virus
Hendra virus
Francisella tularensis
Nipah virus
Rift Valley fever virus
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
Botulinum neurotoxin (0.5 mg)
Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin (100 mg)
Shigatoxin (100 mg)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin (5.0 mg)
T-2 toxin (1000 mg)
USDA HIGH CONSEQUENCE LIVESTOCK PATHOGENS AND TOXINS (NON-OVERLAP AGENTS AND TOXINS)
Akabane virus
African swine fever virus
African horse sickness virus
Avian influenza virus (highly pathogenic)
Blue tongue virus (Exotic)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent
Camel pox virus
Classical swine fever virus
Cowdria ruminantium (Heartwater)
Foot and mouth disease virus
Goat pox virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Japanese encephalitis virus
Malignant catarrhal fever virus (Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1)
Menangle virus
Mycoplasma capricoluml
M.F38/M. mycoides capri
Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides
Newcastle disease virus (all Velogenic)
Peste Des Petits Ruminants virus
Rinderpest virus
Sheep pox virus
Swine vesicular disease virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus (Exotic)
LISTED PLANT PATHOGENS
Candidatus Liberobacter africanus
Candidatus Liberobacter asiaticus
Peronosclerospora phillippinensis
Ralstonia solanacearum race 3, biovar 2
Schlerophthora rayssiae var zeae
Synchytrium endobioticum
Xanthomonas oryzae
Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)