http://www.gsnmagazine.com en http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/871.html July 1, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new grant program under which it plans to award up to $40,000 to each of six different state or local food regulatory agencies to develop innovative ways to integrate food defense strategies -- aimed at thwarting terrorist attacks on the food supply -- into more traditional food safety and inspection methodologies. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/853.html June 23, 2008 The Department of Homeland Securityâ€s Science and Technology Directorate issued late last week the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Draft Environmental Impact Statement (NBAF Draft EIS) for public review and comment http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/851.html June 23, 2008 Hereâ€s a note that might scare you. In the unlikely event that biomedical laboratory personnel working at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, are exposed accidentally to infectious bio-agents, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to transport those exposed workers 37 miles away, for treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/836.html June 16, 2008 BioNeutral Laboratories Corp., based in Newark, NJ, announced positive results from laboratory tests of the companyâ€s Ygiene formulation, a product designed to kill anthrax spores on contact. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/835.html June 16, 2008 Delays in efforts by DHS to relocate its agricultural infectious disease facilities from Plum Island, off the northeastern tip of Long Island, NY, have raised concerns from civilians and government officials that the U.S. may be vulnerable to a dangerous epidemic affecting the nationâ€s food supply. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/700.html April 21, 2008 If Congress provides the necessary funds, the Department of Homeland Security plans to run a side-by-side test of various advanced types of automated pathogen detectors in FY2009, which could shorten by 24 hours the time it takes to determine that a biological attack by terrorists is underway. More... http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/608.html March 19, 2008 First, it was the sponsorship of car #28 in the NASCAR racing series. Next, it was a multi-media recruitment campaign focused on the Dallas Cowboys football team and their beloved cheerleaders. Now, itâ€s another promotional effort to attract new Border Patrol agents focused on the sun-tanned Florida Marlins baseball team. More... http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/bio-terrorism/602.html March 17, 2008 The federal governmentâ€s forensic specialists, who would be called to the scene of a suspected bio-agent attack, want better tools to identify the agents they find and to compare those agents with other bio-agents they might collect at a suspected terroristâ€s home laboratory.