APHIS Extends Comments for Proposed Changes to List of Select Agents/Toxins
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reopening the comment period until January 17, 2012 for its proposed rule that would amend and republish the list of select agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe…
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threat to animal or plant health, or to animal or plant products. The rule would also reorganize the list of select agents and toxins based on the relative potential of each select agent or toxin to be misused to adversely affect human, plant, or animal health. The rule would also amend the regulations in order to add definitions and clarify language concerning security, training, biosafety, biocontainment, and incident response.