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Our Food Supply is Vulnerable to Attack by Mary Sanchez

The heartland label “breadbasket of the world” brings to mind homey comforts, until you begin viewing agriculture as the FBI does. If terrorism means planes into buildings and bombs planted in subways, consider the potential vulnerabilities of our food and water supplies. Both could be targets for contamination, triggering mass panic, catastrophic death tolls and Read More »

April 25, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Bioterrorism
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Plugging Holes Over Bioweapons

This December, the picturesque city of Geneva will host the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The BWC, which 163 countries are state parties to, prohibits the use, development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. In advance of the Review Conference, international delegates to the Convention met from April 13 Read More »

April 22, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, and International
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Agroterrorism: Managing Risk In The Food Supply Chain

Terrorism is a threat we face every day. Air travelers, especially, accept security scans and pat downs at airport check-ins as a way of life. America’s food supply also is receiving increased scrutiny from companies and government agencies working to make sure food products are safe from farm to fork.

April 21, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Bioterrorism
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Was FBI too quick to judge anthrax suspect the killer?

WASHINGTON — Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant — a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer.

April 21, 2011
| Filed under North America and Bioterrorism
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New terror-alert system announced; colored warnings scrapped

WASHINGTON – The government is adopting a simple, two-tiered alert system to warn the public of terrorist threats and possible attacks, Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday. The new warning system to be put in place by next week will replaces the color-coded alert system that was adopted shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks Read More »