AR-News: (US)USDA: Govt.'s Iowa Lab Not Secure for BSE Work

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main laboratory for testing
mad cow disease, located in an Iowa strip mall, is not secure enough to
store dangerous pathogens like the brain-wasting disease, U.S. Agriculture
Department investigators said on Monday.

"The building housing the strip mall is close to other commercial
businesses and has limited security at the entry and exit points," said a
report by the USDA'S Office of Inspector General, which conducts
independent audits and investigations of USDA programs.

The facility in Ames, Iowa -- run by USDA's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Agency -- discovered the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in
December after testing brain tissue samples from an infected cow in
Washington state. 

full story:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4690535

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