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posted by takyon on Friday September 04 2015, @07:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the microbe-begone dept.

The discovery of live anthrax outside a containment area at a military lab in Utah prompted military officials to order an immediate freeze on operations at nine biodefense laboratories that work with dangerous viruses, toxins and bacteria, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

The moratorium, first reported by USA TODAY, came after officials took a detailed look at policies and procedures at the labs and found them wanting, according to Defense officials. Labs at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground facility in Utah have been the focus of international concern since May, when the first clues emerged that the facility had been mistakenly shipping live anthrax — instead of killed specimens — to labs in the USA and abroad for years.

An ongoing USA TODAY Media Network investigation has revealed numerous safety problems at government, university and private labs that operate in the secretive world of biodefense research. Federal lab regulators are conducting comprehensive reviews of how they oversee lab safety and security.


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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday September 04 2015, @11:17PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Friday September 04 2015, @11:17PM (#232461)

    It's in the Taco Bell bathroom, active M-F from 11:30 AM to 1 PM.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday September 05 2015, @01:48AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday September 05 2015, @01:48AM (#232484)

    To comment on my own post, why is Taco Bell such a meme? I love TB, it's about the only fast food I'll eat. Never had diarrhea after eating there, not even an upset stomach. That said, I eat there maybe every other month. I'm not much of a fast food aficionado.

    Is it like The Daily Show going after Arbie's or something?

    CSB.

    Back in the early 80s I was scheduled to move to another apt. The place I was moving into suddenly became unavailable, the place I was moving out of already had people ready to move in, and my stuff was in a truck. This was the week before school started, so I found a cheap-ass place in Claremont. Kitty corner to my apt was a Taco Bell, where I could get tacos and burritos for something like $0.29 each (Clairemont Mesa Blvd, about a mile west of the 163 for your San Diego folks). At the time I went to college 8 to 2, worked 4 to midnight, closed down the bars, then went home. I at at that Taco Bell prolly 10-15 times a week, often drunk/sleep deprived/shower deprived.

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    • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Sunday September 27 2015, @11:15AM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 27 2015, @11:15AM (#242196) Journal

      Pretty sure it started with only tacos and burritos which can be incredibly painful when not made with proper food hygiene and/or with a foreign microbial culture, and then it partly morphed into the Taco Bell thing.

      Microbes + spices + lots of soggy parts/very high surface area = easy digestion/liquification & massive microbial growth = nuclear farts or worse X|

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