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  • Cross Match Technologies approved as provider of fingerprint capture stations for HSPD-12

    CrossMatch gains an important GSA approval, making its products even more appealing to government agencies which must comply with FIPS-201 by October 2006

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  • BIO-key and identiMetrics provide biometric solution for young children

    Keeping track of small children is now easier as BIO-key and identiMetrics introduce a new solution to identify children biometrically by their fingerprints

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  • 3M acquires British passport maker SPSL

    Diversified technology giant — an also scotch tape supplier — 3M is in a deal to acquire U.K. company responsible for RFID technology in biometric passports

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  • Suspected mad cow disease investigated in Alberta

    Authorities in Alberta, Canada, are worried that they have a cow with mad cow disease on their hands; investigations continue

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  • Suspected avian flu-infected Chinese poultry smuggled into U.S.

    The United States does not allow Chinese poultry into the country for fear of avian flu; a Michigan warehouse owner who supplies Detroit’s 300 Chinese restaurants smuggled Chinese foul into the U.S., and the police are looking for him

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  • France launches food safety Web site

    The French agriculture ministry launches a Web site to allow consumers of French food to keep abreast of food safety news

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  • DynPort in Phase II of plague vaccine

    Maryland company now conducting clinical trials of a potential plague vaccine

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  • Ryder offer RydeSmart trucks

    One way to secure the safety of ship-borne freight containers is to lock them with tamper-proof locks, monitor the inside of the container for any changes and disruptions, and use GPS to track them all the way from port of origin to port of destination; Ryder now brings the same idea to monitoring the company’s fleet of 160,000 vehicles; these measures will go some way toward improving the safety of food supplies carried on these trucks from field to store

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  • Concerns about food safety discussed at annual IFT expo

    At the annual Institute of Food Technology meeting in Orlando, experts discuss food safety issues that are becoming more problematic, particularly the lack of food processing demand by consumers, and the danger this may pose

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  • Cadbury is “unreliable” when it comes to food safety

    According to the U.K. Food Standards Agency, Cadbury is “unreliable” when it comes to food safety

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  • Construction begins on DHS’s NBACC at Ft. Detrick

    In several states — Kentucky, Missouri, Massachusetts — there are heated debates about construction of level 3 BioLabs: There is a lot of money and many jobs in these projects, but citizens are worried about lethal pathogens escaping the labs; while these debates go on, the plans for building a large, multi-agency biolab in Fort Detrick, Maryland, are on schedule, and DHS has began construction of its own, $130 million component of the project

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  • How one candy maker complies with the FDA-mandated bioterrorism regulation

    The U.S. 2002 bioterrorism law is not only about anthrax, it is also about something as benign as candy: just ask this large European candy maker can tell you (by the way this candy maker makes the popular candy Airheads)

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  • European Commission releases annual report on RASFF

    The annual report on food safety in the European Union show that notifications of possible food risks have rose 22 percent; this may seem alarming to some, but in the EU, it seems to just show that more people are following food safety rules, and that new member states have become stricter at borders and during food inspections

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  • The rate of salmonella falls in first quarter of 2006

    Salmonella in raw meat products has fallen in the first quarter of 2006 owing to changes in the FSIS inspection of processing plants, reporting, and product testing

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  • Innovative UV-based bioterror protection device

    Another CCAT-supported promising solution: Novatron developed a UV-based protective system against bioterror agents; the military is already interested, and non-military markets may soon warm up to the solution

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More headlines

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  • France to vaccinate millions of ducks against bird flu
  • Cyberattack Disrupts Hospitals, Health Care in Several States
  • Human race could be wiped out with virus more deadly than Covid, professor warns
  • COVID-19 sliced away freedom in the United States
  • New Data Quantifies Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Providers
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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The long view

  • What We’ve Learned from Survivors of the Atomic Bombs

    Q&A with Dr. Preetha Rajaraman, New Vice Chair for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

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  • Combatting the Measles Threat Means Examining the Reasons for Declining Vaccination Rates

    Measles was supposedly eradicated in Canada more than a quarter century ago. But today, measles is surging. The cause of this resurgence is declining vaccination rates.

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  • Social Networks Are Not Effective at Mobilizing Vaccination Uptake

    The persuasive power of social networks is immense, but not limitless. Vaccine preferences, based on the COVID experience in the United States, proved quite insensitive to persuasion, even through friendship networks.

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