[CPEO-MEF] "Southern Research [AL] dismantling former toxic agent laboratory"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Southern Research dismantling former toxic agent laboratory
U.S. developed chemical warfare defense systems there

DAVE PARKS
Birmingham News (AL)
January 31, 2007

Southern Research Institute is decommissioning its U.S. Army Toxic Agent 
Facility on Southside, a corridor of labs that produced some of the 
military's most basic chemical warfare defense systems.

Southern Research officials said the company completed its last chemical 
defense project for the Army in 2004, and it needed the 2,400 square 
feet of space for biological work, most likely connected to national 
defense and public health.

"We're looking in different directions," said Jack Secrist III, 
president and chief executive of Southern Research. "We are seeing a 
significant expansion in infectious disease research that focuses on 
emerging infections or threat agents."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1170240477197220.xml&coll=2

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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