[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR121.2]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 121--POSSESSION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AND TOXINS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 121.2  List of biological agents and toxins.

    The biological agents and toxins listed in this section have been 
determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to both human 
and animal health, to animal health, or to the production and 
marketability of animal products. Unless exempted under paragraph (c) of 
this section, any person who possesses any listed agent or toxin or, in 
the case of a listed disease, the causative agent of that disease, must 
notify the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of that possession 
in accordance with Sec. 121.3.
    (a) Overlap agents and toxins.
    (1) Bacillus anthracis.
    (2) Brucella abortus, B. melitensis, B. suis.
    (3) Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) mallei.
    (4) Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei.
    (5) Clostridium botulinum.
    (6) Coccidioides immitis.
    (7) Coxiella burnetii.
    (8) Eastern equine encephalitis virus.
    (9) Equine morbillivirus (Hendra virus).
    (10) Francisella tularensis.
    (11) Rift Valley fever virus.
    (12) Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.
    (13) Aflatoxins.
    (14) Botulinum toxins.
    (15) Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin.
    (16) Shigatoxin.
    (17) Staphylococcal enterotoxins.
    (18) T-2 toxin.
    (b) Animal agents and toxins.

African horsesickness virus
African swine fever
Akabane virus
Avian influenza (highly pathogenic)
Bluetongue virus (exotic)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent
Camel pox virus
Classical swine fever

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Cowdria ruminantium (heartwater)
Foot-and-mouth disease virus
Goat pox virus
Japanese encephalitis virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Malignant catarrhal fever
Menangle virus
Mycoplasma capricolum /M. F38/M. mycoides capri (contagious caprine 
pleuropneumonia)
Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
Newcastle disease virus (exotic)
Nipah virus
Peste des petits ruminants
Rinderpest virus
Sheep pox
Swine vesicular disease virus
Vesicular stomatitis (exotic)

    (c) Exemptions. Persons possessing products that are, bear, or 
contain overlap agents or toxins listed in paragraph (a) of this section 
will be exempt from the notification requirements of Sec. 121.3 if the 
products have been cleared, approved, licensed, or registered pursuant 
to:
    (1) The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et 
seq.);
    (2) Section 351 of Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262);
    (3) The Act commonly known as the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (the eighth 
paragraph under the heading ``Bureau of Animal Industry'' in the Act of 
March 4, 1913; 21 U.S.C. 151-159); or
    (4) The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 
U.S.C. 131 et seq.).