Global Biodefence January 4, 2023 Although the hot air decontamination process is within materials specifications for aircraft, extended hot air exposure may affect sensitive systems. Germination occurs when a bacterial spore develops into a growing, vegetative bacterial cell. While spores are resistant to environmental extremes such as heat, most vegetative bacterial cells are susceptible to higher temperatures, so causing germination and raising ambient temperature is one way kill bacterial spores. Researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWC-DD) field tested the bacterial spore germination process by spreading over 100 million human-safe bacterial surrogate for Bacillus anthracis bacterial spores […]
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Biothreat Detection Module Will Help Assess Capacity to Detect Agro-Terrorism
Global Biodefense October 1, 2021 The growing concern of countries to prepare against potential agro-terrorism and agro-crime has led to the launch of a joint OIE, FAO and INTERPOL project in 2019 to build resilience against agro-terrorism and agro-crime targeting animal health with the financial support of the Weapons Threat Reduction Programme of Global Affairs Canada. The project will use the FAO Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) and its new Biothreat Detection Module to evaluate beneficiary countries’ capacities to detect criminal or terrorist animal health events. An international team of researchers (Italy, France) describes the development of the new SET Biothreat […]