Wash. State Postal Site to Receive Anthrax Detectors

The U.S. Postal Service mail distribution facility in Spokane, Wash., is scheduled to install by the beginning of July equipment that can detect anthrax in mail, the Spokesman Review reported Friday (see GSN, June 14).

Four Biohazard Detection System machines are scheduled to be installed at the site, which processes 3.5 million pieces of mail each day. Currently, 152 postal facilities nationwide have the detection systems. By the fall, 287 distribution centers are scheduled to have the equipment, according to Postal Service spokeswoman Teresa Rudkin (Thomas Clouse, Spokesman Review, June 17).

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