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Defense agency's effort to secure Soviet pathogens grows
March 29, 2006 A U.S. program to secure and catalog biological agents at former Soviet laboratories has moved forward quickly in recent years, with increased cooperation from five former Soviet republics speeding progress, U.S. Defense Department officials said this week. The United States has been working closely with the governments of Azerbaijan, Georgia, ...
Installation of anthrax detectors at postal facilities nears end
November 3, 2005 The United States Postal Service is nearing completion of a four-year project to install systems that can detect anthrax in the mail. By the beginning of December, the Postal Service expects to have installed Biohazard Detection Systems at 282 mail-processing facilities around the country, said Don Crone, USPS manager of ...
FDA finalizes food bioterrorism rule
October 6, 2005 The Food and Drug Administration this week finalized a rule developed after the 2001 terrorist attacks to protect the food supply against bioterrorism. The final rule requires all domestic and foreign facilities that pack, store, manufacture or process food in the United States to register with the agency. There are ...
GAO criticizes Energy's plutonium disposal effort
August 23, 2005 The Energy Department should develop a plan to consolidate storage of plutonium stocks that are currently located across the country, according to a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office. The report (GAO-05-665) called for moving the stocks to the department's Savannah River Site in South Carolina and ...
Local officials call for more mass transit security funding
August 5, 2005 More federal funding is needed to research and develop technology to identify nuclear, chemical or biological weapons on mass transit systems, according to local transit security officials. Without new detection systems and sensors, mass transit is virtually defenseless against an attack involving a weapon of mass destruction, transit security experts ...
Pentagon employees seek continued hold on anthrax vaccination program
August 2, 2005 Six Defense Department employees have asked a U.S. appeals court not to lift an injunction blocking mandatory anthrax vaccinations because the vaccine used in the program has never been formally found safe or approved for use against inhalation anthrax. In a brief filed July 29 in the United States Court ...
Pentagon appeals decision halting anthrax vaccinations
May 23, 2005 The Defense Department last week asked a federal appeals court to lift an injunction that stopped the mandatory anthrax vaccination program for military personnel. Justice Department lawyers, in an appeal filed on behalf on the Pentagon, contend that the Food and Drug Administration's documentation on BioPort's Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed proves ...
Chemical weapons depots slated for closure
May 16, 2005 The Umatilla, Deseret and Newport chemical weapons depots are slated for closure as part of the U.S. Defense Department's cost-cutting efforts, the Pentagon announced last week. The bases are set to close once their stockpiles of chemical agents are eliminated, the Pentagon said in a justification document released Friday. Work ...
