An important component to the new rules include security risk assessment of individuals who have access to the select agents and toxins.

The organisms causing these diseases are known as select agents.

The rules requiring that facilities notify the authorities even if they have no select agents are unnecessarily burdensome, the society contends.

A 1996 law requires any laboratory that ships select agents to register with the federal centers when doing so.

It is still on the CDC's list of select agents, however.

We went from 38 people who could work on select agents to 2.

These toxins and the organisms that produce them are sometimes referred to as select agents.

(For select agents, a high risk restricted area is often called an "exclusion area.")

Select agent area - High risk restricted area containing select agents.

Foreign nationals from "state sponsor of terrorism countries" will not be permitted into select agent or high risk areas.