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Article: U.S. Agriculture Department investigators criticize mad cow lab security.
- Article from:
- Proteomics Weekly
- Article date:
- April 19, 2004
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2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department's mad cow disease testing lab, located in a shopping center in Iowa, is not secure enough for storage of mad cow tissue samples, a department investigative report said.
The facility, part of the ... Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), is close to other businesses and has limited security at its entrances and exits, said the report by the Inspector General's office, a part of USDA which conducts independent investigations.
Service officials had stated that "all pathogens of consequence had been removed," but investigators learned later from a laboratory official ...