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Article: Attacks on food supply unlikely to succeed
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Society for Advancement of Education Apr 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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TERRORISM
Terrorists who intend to kill or seriously harm large numbers of people by attacking the U.S. food supply are unlikely to succeed, maintains Doug Archer, a food science professor at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, and former deputy director for the Federal Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. "News reports have raised fears about terrorists attacking the nation's food supply, but when you examine the list of known biological and chemical agents, not many would be successful at harming people on a large scale."
He concedes that attacks may be possible, but argues that agricultural plants ...