12 junho 2003

CONTAMINANTES
'Agroterrorism' poses devastating threat: The federal government has recently classified several scientific studies that show that the U.S. food supply is highly vulnerable to potentially devastating terrorist attack, experts said [in May] at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
In some cases, making the studies secret has hindered efforts to inform farm and food companies about the security gaps and how they might better protect the food supply, the scientists said.
In a session on "agroterrorism" - attacks against farm crops, livestock, produce or packaged foods - speakers agreed that the U.S. food supply may be more vulnerable than skyscrapers, bridges, nuclear power plants or other high-profile infrastructure targets. A major agroterror attack might produce substantially greater economic damage, they said.