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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

New UGA program focuses on food supply safety (UGA/Georgia Faces/ 5/17)

Oral Vaccine Containing Salmonella May Protect Against Aerosolized Anthrax (American Society for Microbiology/ 4/27)

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - USA (SOUTH DAKOTA) (ProMED Mail/ 4/26)

ANTHRAX, HUMAN, LIVESTOCK - MONGOLIA (ProMED Mail/ 4/25)

ANTHRAX, HUMAN, LIVESTOCK - INDONESIA (NUSA TENGGARA TIMOR) (02) (ProMED Mail/ 4/17)

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method (Newswise/Texas A&M University/ 4/12)

ANTHRAX, HUMAN, BOVINE - GUINEA-BISSAU (OIO) (ProMED Mail/ 4/12)

Rapid, one-step, ultra-sensitive detection of food poisoning bacteria and biothreats pdf file (American Chemical Society PressPac/ 4/11)

Researchers study decontamination of chemical, biological warfare agents (Virginia Tech/ 4/11)

"Treatment and Disposal of Food Products Contaminated by Biological Threat Agents" (Food Research Institute/ University of Wisconsin - Madison/ Workshop Registration)

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - CANADA (SASKATCHEWAN) (02) (ProMED Mail/ 4/01)

ANTHRAX, PORCINE - RUSSIA (ORENBURG) (ProMED Mail/ 3/12)

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - UKRAINE (IVANO-FRANKOVSK) (ProMED Mail/ 3/09)

Food sector vulnerable to emergencies, says study (Food Production Daily/ 3/06)

More cash needed to protect U.S. food: experts (Reuters Health/ 3/05)

Protecting US crops from terrorist attack to be discussed at 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting (EurekAlert/ 2/18)

Botulism study could lead to new vaccines and treatments to counter bioterrorist attacks (Stanford University / 12/11)

Namibia: 22,000 Cattle Inoculated Against Anthrax (AllAfrica.com / 10/31)

Homeland Security Threat Condition Response Procedures Amended (MeatAMI.com / 9/8)

Monoclonal antibody recognizes a specific sugar on the surface of anthrax bacteria spores (Eurek Alert / 8/18)

Researchers Using GIS to Locate Sites for Carcass Disposal (NewsWise.com / 8/15)

Summaries of Competitive Food Defense Research Reports, 2005 (FDA / 7/17)

Center Coordinates K-State's Safety And Security Efforts (NewsWise.com / 6/30)

Summaries of Competitive Food Defense Research Reports, 2005 (FDA / 6/29)

FDA To Reduce Pesticide Monitoring, Increase Food Defense Spending (NewsWise.com / 6/26)

Vaccine combined with short-term postexposure antibiotics protects monkeys from inhalational anthrax (Eurek Alert / 5/1)

Scientists Design Potent Anthrax Toxin Inhibitor. Technique May Also be Applicable to Other Disease Toxins (National Institute of Health / 4/23)

Georgia Tech Program to Halt Pandemics Installed in Georgia (NewsWise.com / 4/20)

Driver of anthrax toxicity could lead to late-stage therapy (Eurek Alert / 3/23)

Discovering What Works on Anthrax (New York Times / 2/21)

Anthrax spores may survive water treatment (Eurek Alert / 2/17)

Emergency Preparedness a Click Away at Purdue Biosecurity Site (NewsWise.com / 2/13)

Mathematics and Statistics Combat Epidemics & Bioterror (NewsWise.com / 2/1)

Ricin vaccine 'shown to be safe' (BBC News / 1/31)

Study Finds Anthrax Toxins Also Harmful To Fruit Flies (NewsWise.com / 1/31)

ATTACK ON U.S. FOOD SUPPLY WOULD BE COSTLY (MeatNews.com / 12/20)

UCF, NIH study: Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants (Eurek Alert / 12/19)

FDA Security Surveillance Assignment. October - November 2004 (FDA / 12/15)

New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax (Eurek Alert / 11/29)

Minimizing Risk of Terrorism Drives Food Researchers (NewsWise.com / 11/7)