Table 1.

List of biological select agents and toxins in Taiwan

No.	Item	Control type			Control limit amount	Highly dangerous BSAT
		Select agents	BSAT-positive specimen	Select toxins
1	Bacillus anthracis	v			—	v
2	Botulinum neurotoxins			v	≧1 mg	v
3	Botulinum neurotoxin-producing species of Clostridium (such as C. botulinum, C. baratii, and C. butyricum, part of C. argentinense)	v			—	v
4	Burkholderia mallei	v			—	v
5	Burkholderia pseudomallei	v			—	v
6	Brucella abortus	v			—
7	Brucella melitensis	v			—
8	Brucella suis	v			—
9	Coxiella burnetii	v			—
10	Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus	v	v		—
11	Diacetoxyscirpenol			v	≧10,000 mg
12	Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus	v			—
13	Ebola virus	v	v		—	v
14	Francisella tularensis	v			—	v
15	Hendra virus	v	v		—
16	Kyasanur forest disease virus	v	v		—
17	Lassa virus	v	v		—
18	Lujo virus	v	v		—
19	Marburg virus	v	v		—	v
20	Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus	v			—	v
21	Monkeypox virus	v			—
22	Nipah virus	v	v		—
23	Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus	v			—
24	Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus	v			—	v
25	Rickettsia prowazekii	v			—
26	Rift Valley fever virus	v			—
27	Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus	v			—	v
28	South American hemorrhagic fever viruses: Chapare	v	v		—
29	South American hemorrhagic fever viruses: Guanarito	v	v		—
30	South American hemorrhagic fever viruses: Junin	v	v		—
31	South American hemorrhagic fever viruses: Machupo	v	v		—
32	South American hemorrhagic fever viruses: Sabia	v	v		—
33	Staphylococcal enterotoxins A, B, C, D, E subtypes			v	≧100 mg
34	T-2 toxin			v	≧10,000 mg
35	Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses: Far Eastern subtype	v			—
36	Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses: Siberian subtype	v			—
37	Variola major virus (smallpox virus)	v	v		—	v
38	Variola minor virus (Alastrim)	v	v		—	v
39	Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus	v			—
40	Yersinia pestis	v			—	v

BSATs, biological select agents and toxins; v, applicable.