Select Agents

• List of Select Agents
• Select Agent Regulations:
  • 42 CFR 73 HHS and Overlap Agents
  • 9 CFR 121 and 7 CFR 331 USDA Agents
  • NC Biological Agents Registry
• Select Agent Destruction Form

Secure Laboratory Authorization

When instructed by the Department of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), new laboratory personnel should follow this procedure for access to a secure laboratory:

1. The Prinicpal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator must contact the EHS Director or the Biological Safety Officer to request authorization of your access to the secure laboratory.
2. EHS will send an amendment to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC will contact EHS with an Identifier Number assigned to the new person. EHS will notify you of your assigned Identifier Number.
3. Complete form FD-961, writing your assigned Identifier Number into Block 11. Ensure questions 12a-12h are answered. See http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/bioterrorfd961.htm for instructions.
4. Call the UNC Department of Public Safety (DPS) at 843-6165 to make an appointment for fingerprinting. Bring your completed FD-961 to the appointment, and ask the officer to complete two fingerprint cards for you. DPS will send FD-961 and the two fingerprint cards to the FBI. Please bring the following information with you:
   • Department Name and Number
   • Department Rep
   • Phone Number
   • Account Number to be Debited
   • Object Code (if there is one)
5. Complete a Medical School Planning Office Card Access Authorization Form OR a One Card Access Authorization Form, depending on the card system used by the laboratory. This form must be signed by the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator. The Biological Safety Officer will authorize card access after receiving FBI approval, provided that all other safety training and occupational health requirements have been met.
6. To access the inventory system, the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator must send a request to the Biological Safety Officer with:
   1. your full name,
   2. your email address, and
   3. your ONYEN (not your password)

Chapter 20 (UNC's Select Agent Security Plan) together with the rest of UNC's Biological Safety Manual and the laboratory-specific Standard Operating Procedure, is UNC's Biosafety Plan required under the Select Agent Regulations. Chapter 20 and UNC's Biological Safety Manual incorporates by reference the current edition of the CDC/NIH's Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories.

Please call the UNC Biological Safety Officer at 962-5507 if you have any questions.

 Biological Safety

• Autoclave Bags & Biowaste Disposal
• Biohazard Waste Management
• Biological Safety Manual
• Biosafety Committee
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Flammable Gases in Bio Safety Cabinets
• Forms
• Recombinant DNA
• Select Agents
• Shipping Biologicals
• NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules Training
• Tuberculosis