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  • Bush 2007 budget: Mixed message for farmers

    Highlights of the food supply aspects of the proposed 2007 budget

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  • USDA faulted for lax implementation of mad cow disease safety regulations

    The USDA has a division in charge of ensuring food supply safety; the USDA inspector general does not think they do a very good job, and the Japanese, who imposed a U.S. beef importation ban, agree, insisting on sending their own inspectors to monitor U.S. slaughterhouses

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  • UMass-Amherst to lead national effort on animal disease

    Another academic-led effort, this time to ensure early detection and tacking of diseased animals

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  • BU biolab raises evacuation concern

    BU cleared the legal hurdles to building a Level 4 biolab on campus — and the city of Boston’s evacuation plans in case of a disaster come under scrutiny

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  • EU to fine France for lax security in biotech research

    The EU has strict law governing biotech research, whether for biodefense or genetic modification of crops, and France has been in violation of these strictures

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  • National Research Council warns of biological threats

    NRC joins a number of other scientific bodies warning of terror-related perils attendant to medical and biotech research, but says that extra layer of secrecy is not the solution

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  • Construction of controversial BU Biosafety Level 4 lab to move forward

    BU wants to build an advanced lab on campus to handle the most dangerous biological agents; neighbors tried to block construction, and filed

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  • Bacterial pore detection system company bolsters marketing of product

    Anthrax detection device maker signs an important marketing agreement with an energetic security consultant and training company, the customer of which it wants to reach

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  • Advances in life sciences may offer terrorists novel bioterror weapons

    As is the case with other aspects of technology, the onward march of biotechnology holds both promise and peril

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  • U.S. pandemic preparation and response are mostly local affairs, which experts say is not good

    The U.S. government may talk about a nation-wide plan to combat a pandemic, but when it comes down to it most of what will be done — or not done — when a pandemic hits will be locally determined

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  • Federal judge: EPA director Whitman misled about NY air safety after 9/11, increasing -- even creating -- danger to public

    Federal judge says former EPA director knowingly misled the public and New York City authorities about the presence of toxins in the air in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, thus contributing — perhaps even causing — many of the health problems which ensued

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  • Metrics: Money allocated to security grows

    Motivational speakers accentuate the positive, but fear is also a great motivator — just see what countries and companies are planning to spend on defense this year

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  • Grain operation BioTerror Act record keeping requirement nears

    The different elements of a comprehensive monitoring and regulating the different aspects of the food supply come into effect, step by step

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  • DHS the only federal agency to see budget increase in FY2007

    Congress and the administration are going to cut the federal budget in order to fight the budget deficit — with one exception: DHS budget

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  • Companies offering free consultation on FDA regulation 306 compliance

    Sarbanes-Oxley created a veritable compliance industry, and the 2002 Bioterrorism Act, requiring the registration of 27 different kinds of farm and home animals, is creating another compliance industry

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  • 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
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  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
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  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
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  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
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  • 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
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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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