Iowa Postal Sites Begin Receiving Anthrax Detectors

U.S. Postal Service mail processing facilities throughout Iowa have begun installing anthrax detection systems, the Quad-City Times reported today (see GSN, June 20).

“Unfortunate as it is, we have to deal with this type of reality. It is a reality,” said Postal Service spokesman Richard Watkins.

The Des Moines processing center installed Biohazard Detection Systems earlier this month. Facilities in the Quad-Cities, Sioux City, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids are expected to soon receive the system.

“The nation's mail system is as safe as we can make it,” Watkins said (Todd Dorman, Quad-City Times, June 22).

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