Case Glossary

Cell lines are reproducing cultures of cells from multicellular animals.

Goods include:

1. An animal.

2. A plant.

3. Any other article, substance or thing (including, but not limited to, any kind of moveable property); and, to avoid doubt, includes mail of any kind and ballast water.

The department will assess the application and on the basis of that assessment may decide to grant an import permit subject to any conditions deemed necessary for safe importation, use and disposal of those products.

It should be noted that applying for an import permit does not automatically result in an import permit being issued. The Director of biosecurity or their delegate issues the import permit. You should ensure that an application is submitted for each product type and that the prescribed fee accompanies the import permit application.

Infectious agent includes any of the following:

1. a virus;

2. a prion;

3. a plasmid;

4. a viroid;

5. a thing that is a part of an infectious agent.

Examples: For the purposes of point 5, capsids, envelopes, enzymes, genetic material coding for an infectious agent, proteins.

Laboratory organisms are those defined in the following list and must be contained under laboratory or animal house conditions: guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rabbits, rats or microorganisms.

Cells are simply obtained by taking tissue from an animal. Although this is the initial step to creating a cell line it is not yet a cell line. Cell lines are formed when the cells are cultured with growth factors, nutrients etc. Many cell lines have been “alive” for decade and have outlived their original donor.

A cell culture supernatant is the nutrient broth/cellular material etc. floating around the cells that are being cultured. Unless the supernatant is filtered it will often contain floating viable cells.