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
Hospital 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...