Dangerous Substances/Biological Materials
(Information required by the Home Office/Metropolitan Police
in relation to the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001)
Please complete the attached table for each of the substances listed as follows:
Column 1: please 9 if your department keeps the substance concerned.
Column 2: for each substance you do keep please indicate, using the reference below, which, if any, of the
following exceptions apply.
Exception:
a pathogen or toxin that is in a medicinal or immunological product
a pathogen that is intended to be administered to humans of animals for medicinal
purposes
a pathogen that is kept in such a way that it is no longer in a state that will allow it to
be propagated
a pathogen that is held as part of a specimen for diagnosis, provided that it is disposed
of as soon as possible after diagnosis
a toxin (other than botulinum toxin or Clostridium perfringens but including Clostridium
perfringens alphatoxin) held in quantities not exceeding 5 milligrams within any single
secure area
immunotoxins
a toxin that has not been deliberately isolated or extracted from its natural source
a pathogen carried by any animal, human corpse, or animal feeding stuff unless you
know that the infection was caused deliberately and you decide to keep it for longer
than is reasonably necessary for its disposal.
Column 3: any comment you wish to make.
Toxins
Dangerous Substance
Abrin
Botulinum toxins
Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin,
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin
Conotoxin
Modeccin toxin
Ricin
Saxitoxin
Shiga toxin, Shiga like toxin
Staphylococcal enterotoxins
Tetrodotoxin
Viscum Album Lectin 1 (Viscumin)
Volkensin toxin
Col 1
√
Col 2
Exceptions
Col 3
Comment
Reference
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Viruses
Dangerous Substance
African horse sickness virus
African swine fever virus
Bluetongue virus
Chikungunya virus
Classical swine fever virus
Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever virus
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
Dengue fever virus types 1-4
Dobrava/Belgrade virus
Eastern equine encephalitis virus
Ebola virus
Everglades virus
Foot and mouth disease virus
Getah virus
Goat pox virus
Hantaan virus (Korean haemorrhagic fever)
Hendra virus (Equine morbillivirus)
Herpes simue (B virus)
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)
as defined in annex I(2) of council Directive
005/94/EC(a)
Influenza virus (pandemic strains)
Japanese encephalitis virus
Junin virus
Kyasanur Forest virus
Lassa fever virus
Louping ill virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Lymphocytic choriormeningitus virus
Mayaro virus
Machupo virus
Marburg virus
Middleburg virus
Mobala virus
Monkey pox virus
Mucambo virus
Murry Valley fever virus
Newcastle disease virus
Ndumu virus
Pestes des petits ruminants virus
Polio virus
Powassan virus
Rabies and rabies-related Lyssaviruses
Rift Valley fever virus
Rinderpest virus
Rocio virus
Sabia virus
Sagiyama virus
Sheep pox virus
Sin Nombre virus
St Louis encephalitis virus
Swine vesicular disease virus
Variola virus
Venezuelen equine encephalitis virus
Col 1
√
Col 2
Exceptions
Col 3
Comment
Vesicular stomatitis virus
West Nile fever virus
Yellow fever virus
Bacteria
Dangerous Substance
Col 1
√
Col 2
Exceptions
Col 3
Comment
Col 1
√
Col 2
Exceptions
Col 3
Comment
Coxiella burnettii
Rickettsia prowazeki
Rickettsia rickettsia
Rickettsia typhi (mooseri)
Bacillus anthracis
Bracella abortus
Brucella canis
Brucella melitensis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia mallei (Pseudomonas mallei)
Burkholderia pseudomallei (Pseudomonas
pseudomallei)
Chlamydophila psittaci
Chlamydophila psittaci
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium perfringens
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli,
serotype 0157and verotoxin producing
strains
Francisella tularensis
Salmonella paratyphi (MDR)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Salmonella paratyphi A, B, C
Shigella boydii
Shigella dysenteria
Shigella flexneri
Vibrio cholerae
Yersinia pestis
Fungi
Dangerous Substance
Cladophialophora bantiana
Coccidioides immitis
Cryptococcus neoformans
NOTE:
Any reference above to a micro-organism includes (a) any genetic material containing any nucleic acid sequence associated with the pathogenicity of the
micro-organism; and
(b) any genetically modified organism containing any such sequence
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