Required Registration of Select Agents
The federal government has enacted the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Act of 2002 and the USA PATRIOT ACT to reduce the risk of unauthorized use of certain biological and chemical agents. These laws require that research institutions, including UC Berkeley, collect information regarding certain "select agents" and register their presence with the federal government. Noncompliance could result in a $500,000 fine or five years in prison.
Below is the list of select agents that must be reported to the campus if they are included in research proposals (updated 1/2/2003). Indicate proposed use of any of the agents below on the Sponsored Projects Office Proposal Review Form (PRF). Genetic material, nonviable material, vaccine strains, nontoxic chains, or any modification of the listed biological agents or chemical toxins must also be reported.
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
Conotoxins
Diacetoxyscirpenol
Ricin
Saxitoxin
Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins
Tetrodotoxin
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
Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
Shigatoxin
Staphylococcal enterotoxin
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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 (Exotic)
Menangle virus
Mycoplasma capricolum/M.F38/M. mycoides capri
Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides
Newcastle disease virus (VVND)
Peste Des Petits Ruminants virus
Rinderpest virus
Sheep pox virus
Swine vesicular disease virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus (Exotic)
LISTED PLANT PATHOGENS
Liberobacter africanus
Liberobacter asiaticus
Peronosclerospora philippinensis
Phakopsora pachyrhizi
Plum Pox Potyvirus
Ralstonia solanacearum race 3, biovar 2
Schlerophthora rayssiae var zeae
Synchytrium endobioticum
Xanthomonas oryzae
Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)
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For more information:
Centers for Disease Control Select Agent Program
USDA APHIS Agricultural Select Agent Program
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