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The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) published final rules, which implement the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 setting forth the requirements for possession, use, and transfer of select agents and toxins. The select agents and toxins identified in the final rules have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal and plant products.

All provisions of these final rules supersede those contained in the interim final rules and became effective on April 18, 2005.

Download CDC Final Rule (42 CFR 73) Adobe PDF (PDF format)

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an interim final rule in the Federal Register on October 20, 2005 to add “Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all eight gene segments” to the list of HHS select agents and toxins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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