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Pentagon Revising Biological Threat Response
The U.S. Defense Department is revising its policies on responding to potential biological threats, following this month’s anthrax scare at the Pentagon and a nearby agency mail facility in Northern Virginia, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, March 23). Local, state and federal officials met Friday for an “after-action” review of the March 14 incident. Pentagon representatives discussed the planned improvements at the session, the Post reported. The Defense Department will now require contract laboratories to submit test results for biological contamination within 24 hours. While tests on samples from a Pentagon mailroom were performed on March 10, military officials did not receive word of the possible anthrax contamination until March 14. Officials tentatively agreed at Friday’s meeting that tests should be performed only by laboratories certified under the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Laboratory Response Network, the Post reported (Spencer Hsu, Washington Post, March 27).
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