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Salad bars and water systems are easy targets for bioterrorists -- and America's monitoring system is woefully inadequate

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
Salad bars and water systems are easy targets for bioterrorists -- and America's monitoring system is woefully inadequateHospital workers wearing biohazard suits scrub down a man in a decontamination drill.AP Photo/Nati Harnik

In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We Prepared?” The answer was a resounding no.

The experts testified that our biodefense system...

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