Items Requiring Prior Approval
Approval Required Prior to Purchase or Acquisition
The following items require approval by the Department of Environment, Health & Safety prior to purchase or acquisition. Please call 962-5507 to request approval.
- Polio Virus
- Biological Safety Cabinets
- Chemical Fume (Exhaust) Hoods
- Controlled Substances
- Stem Cells
Radioactive materials or x-ray machines cannot be purchased or acquired without the approval of the UNC Radiation Safety Officer. Please call 962-5507 for approval.
Agents that required EHS approval:
HHS Select Agents
- Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus
- Ebola Viruses
- Lassa Fever Virus
- Marburg Virus
- Richettsia prowazeki
- Rickettsia rickettsi
- South American Haemorrhagic Fever Viruses
- Tick-Borne Enviphalitis Complex Viruses
- Variola Major Viruses (Smallpox Virus)
- Viruses Causing Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- Yellow Fever Virus
- Yersinia pestis
- Abrin
- Conotoxins
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Ricin
- Saxitoxin
- Tetrodotoxin
USDA-HHS Overlap Agents
- Bacillus anthracis
- Brucella abortus
- Brucella melitensis
- Brucella suis
- Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) mallei
- Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei
- Clostridium botulinum
- Coccidioides immitis
- Coxiella burnettii
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus
- Equine Morbillivirus (Hendra Virus)/Nipah Virus
- Francisella tularensis
- Rift Valley Fever Virus
- Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus
- Aflatoxins
- Botulinum Toxins
- Clostridium perfringens epsilon Toxin
- Shigatoxin
- Staphlococcal enterotoxin
- T-2 Toxin
USDA High Consequence of Livestock Pathogens and Toxins
- African Horse Sickness Virus
- African Swine Fever
- Akabane Virus
- Avian Influenza Virus (Highly Pathogenic)
- Blue Tongue Virus (Exotic)
- Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy Agent
- Camel Pox Virus
- Classical Swine Fever
- 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.F 38/M. mycoides capri (Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia Agent)
- Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia Agent)
- Newcastle Disease Virus (Exotic)
- Peste Des Petits Ruminants
- Rinderpest Virus
- Sheep Pox
- Swine Vesicular Disease Virus
- Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
Plant Pathogens
- Liberobacter africanus
- Liberobacter asiaticus
- Peronosclerospora philippinensis
- Phakopsora pachyrhizi
- Plum pox potyvirus
- Ralstonia solanacearum Race 3
- Sclerophthora rayssiae var. zeae
- Synchytrium endobioticum
- Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola
- Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)
This is an 8 January 2003 addendum to the list in Appendix 7 dated 1 July 1997.
PLEASE NOTIFY EHS PRIOR TO PURCHASE OR ACQUISITION
Please notify the UNC Laster Safety Officer (962-5507) if you purchase or acquire a class 3b or 4 laser.