Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Improving the Select Agent Program

Immediately following the 2001 anthrax attacks, U.S. officials didn’t know how many U.S. research laboratories held stocks of Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax disease. And they ...
Campus Safety Magazine

1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus Declared a Select Agent

ATLANTA, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published in the Federal Register an interim rule declaring the strain of influenza responsible for the 1918 pandemic as a select ...
Kaleido Scope

Select Agent Registration

Do you work with any of these materials? Review the current list of select agents and toxins. See the latest information on regulation changes. If you receive, use, transfer, or store a select agent ...
Houston Chronicle

CDC stops A&M research into biological agents

Texas A&M University's research on some of the most dangerous infectious diseases will remain on hold until federal inspectors travel to campus later this month to scrutinize how the university ...
University of Wyoming

Select Agents

If a Principal Investigator intends to possess, use, ship, or receive any Select Agent or Toxin that is regulated by the CDC or APHIS, they are required to contact the Alternate Responsible Official ...