Posted on 08/04/2023 7:17:17 AM PDT by SJackson
“This is unprecedented. We’ve never had a biological lab in the United States busted before.”
That was Jesalyn Harper, code enforcement officer in Reedley, California, in an interview with Katy Grimes of the California Globe. Grimes sought out Harper after Reedley officials discovered a covert biological lab run by a shady Chinese company. What local officials found there was also unprecedented.
White mice had been genetically engineered to catch and carry the Covid virus, the MidValley Times reported. The illegal lab harbored potentially infectious bacterial and viral agents including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5, rubella, samples of malaria and “thousands of vials that contained unlabeled fluids.”
As Harper revealed, the original lab was in Fresno and operated by Universal Meditech, Inc. (UMI), licensed by the state of California on March 20, 2019. On March 24, 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office of Business and Economic Development struck a tax credit allocation of $360,000 with UMI. CEO Zhaoyan Wang thanked Fresno’s Economic Development Corporation for “further assistance” with California tax credits.
UMI suffered a fire and faced bankruptcy, and in October, 2022, Prestige Biotech moved the operation to a warehouse in Reedley, a Fresno County town with a population of about 25,000.
Prestige Biotech owner Xiuqin Yao told Harper she lives in China and could only communicate by email. Harper was unable to establish who, exactly, owned the hundreds of mice found on the property. Not a single person would identify as the operator of the lab, and some claimed they were “friends of the owner.”
Grimes asked what kind of civil or criminal charges the lab operators faced. As Harper had also learned, privately funded research and development labs are not required to register with the government. That avoids the multiple permits required of those operating under state or federal grants. Someone in the state could have assisted the owners “to move from Fresno without licenses.”
Harper had also learned that mice are “unprotected” under the United States Department of Agriculture. According to the National Institutes of Health, mice and rats “have long served as the preferred species for biomedical research animal models.” Even so, the covert lab should have been busted long before.
According to court documents, 35 separate refrigerators and freezers contained biological material, blood, tissue, serum, bodily fluid samples, and medical waste. Two freezers were set at minus 80 and minus 60 degrees Celsius and 29 refrigerators at -20 C. According to court documents the low temperatures “raised concerns that infectious agents were stored on site.”
On July 5, officials removed from the property more than 2,000 gallons of “biological material and medical waste.” Chemicals discovered in the warehouse led the California Globe’s Thomas Buckley to brand the operation a “bio-meth lab.” Details have yet to emerge on the people who were working with the infectious agents, and what their intentions might have been.
At the outset of August, the Fresno Bee and Sacramento Bee had not covered the story. Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued no statement on the lab and neither had the California Department of Toxic Substances Control or the California Department of Public Health.
Reedley officials also brought in the federal Centers for Disease Control, but the CDC’s online newsroom shows nothing on the secret lab containing rubella, E. Coli, malaria samples and such. Reedley officials also brought in the FBI but at the end of July the bureau’s website reported nothing on the secret lab.
According to FBI director Christopher Wray, the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic was “most likely a potential lab incident” in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was supplied with a cargo of deadly viruses by Chinese national Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, who headed the special pathogens program at Canada’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg.
In 2017-18 alone. Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the WIV, funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci to perform gain-of-function research that makes viruses more lethal and communicable. Sen. Rand Paul, who has issued an official criminal referral, against Fauci, charges that “viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to gain the function of infecting humans.”
Through a lab leak or deliberate vectoring, the Covid-19 virus made its way around the world, with no interference from CDCs vaunted Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). In early 2020, EIS veteran Dr. Nancy Messonnier told reporters she was “not at liberty” to discuss the issue of travel from Wuhan. Who, exactly, was calling the shots Dr. Messonnier did not explain, and her telebriefings faithfully echoed China’s talking points.
Research with viruses and bacteria is risky, even in government BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs. As Rep. Bart Stupak noted in 2007, “No one in the federal government even knows for sure how many of these labs there are in the United States, much less what research they are doing or whether they are safe and secure.”
No safeguards of any sort existed at the covert laboratory in Reedley, California. Such a facility could easily speed the spread of Covid-19 or disease from other infectious agents. Embattled Americans have a right to know how many covert Chinese labs are out there and what, if anything, state and federal officials are going to do about it.
Fauci, Gruesome, and anyone else who funded this illegal lab or allowed it unfettered existence on U.S. soil should be tried for treason. Then, they should be locked up in an isolated room and doused with the vats of cultured organisms. This is what they would have allowed to happen to US.
It’s worrying that the Chinese had a biolab in the US but none of organisms found are suitable for bioweapon development.
Lab operating in Reedley shut down after officials found infectious agents and chemicals
By Brianna Willis KFSN logo, Thursday, July 27, 2023 2:36PM
REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) — A lab operating in Reedley is shut down after an investigation found it was filled with hazardous materials, chemicals, and medical waste.
The facility was discovered last year after a simple violation opened the door to something authorities say was much more disturbing - a facility operating unlicensed and unpermitted.
The legal action started in March of this year when the Fresno County Department of Public Health worked with the City of Reedley to get a court-issued warrant to inspect a property in Reedley.
Through the process, health officials say they found the company, Prestige Biotech and Universal Meditech, had refrigerators filled with chemicals, human blood, illegal Covid and pregnancy tests, and just under 1,000 mice.
As of earlier this month, all of those materials have been properly disposed of by health officials.
Officials say this is something they’ve never seen before.
It all started back in December 2022 with a green garden hose running through a property in the City of Reedley.
“Our code enforcement officer really paying attention, driving down the street, sees something that looks out of place. Stops, knocks on the door, and lo and behold, we discover folks that are storing things, operating here at 850 I street, unlicensed, unpermitted,” said Reedley City Manager, Nicole Zieba.
By March of this year, court documents show Fresno County in collaboration with the City of Reedley applied for a warrant to “inspect the property after inspectors found reasons to believe it did not meet health and safety standards.”
They later applied for a warrant to abate conditions on the property that were deemed a public nuisance.
Joe Prado with the Fresno County Department of Public Health says through those orders, they found Prestige Biotech and Universal Meditech Biotech Inc., had biological agents at the facility.
“There were some laboratory mice on-site at this location. What we heard from the business owner was that they were doing some type of testing with those mice to see whether or not their Covid test kits were actually effective in detecting Covid. So, that was one example of what they shared with the purpose of the laboratory mice were being on-site,” said Assistant Director with the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado.
In addition to the 951 mice that were either dead or in distress, a state medical waste investigation shows refrigerators and freezers with blood and containers labeled as “serum or plasma,” and found Prestige Biotech is not registered with the department as a medical waste generator.
Court documents also show CDC staff found at least 20 potentially infectious agents from chlamydia to hepatitis.
City staff say those in the lab told them “they are making pregnancy and COVID-19 tests.”
Zieba says they learned the company previously operated in Fresno.
“Our understanding is that this company was in Fresno, there was a fire that displaced them and for an unknown measure they just happened to Reedley that they stopped in for storage and interim operation,” said Zieba.
Through the abatement warrant approvals, officials have stopped the lab.
“On July 7 of this year, we were able to abate all the biological agents at that particular site,” said Prado. Both Zieba and Prado say this investigation is very unique.
“We run across unlicensed businesses all the time, a contractor who doesn’t have a license and things like that but to walk to a door and see 30 freezers, refrigerators, lab supplies, medical equipment, just shocking,” said Zieba.
“I have never experienced something like this in the last 26 years of my county career. So, this is, I think, a very unique situation,” said Prado.
Prado adds they all took quick action to make sure everyone in the City of Reedley is safe.
“I just want to really reassure the community. This was done really to protect the public overall. So we were successful with the biological agents being destroyed at this time, and so, but first and foremost the public safety was the main reason why we moved forward,” said Prado.
Action News tried to reach out to the owners of the company but our attempts to contact them were unsuccessful.
Zieba says due to the lack of communication from the company to the health inspectors’ inquiries, they consider the building abandoned and plan to destroy the property.
https://abc30.com/reedley-lab-hazardous-materials-medical-waste-prestige-biotech/13555300/
The things found in that lab indicate something that is left unmentioned...
...There are going to be many more of those labs somewhere in the US.
...There are going to be many more of those labs somewhere in the US.
On July 5, officials removed from the property more than 2,000 gallons of “biological material and medical waste.” Chemicals discovered in the warehouse led the California Globe’s Thomas Buckley to brand the operation a “bio-meth lab.” Details have yet to emerge on the people who were working with the infectious agents, and what their intentions might have been.
At the outset of August, the Fresno Bee and Sacramento Bee had not covered the story. Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued no statement on the lab and neither had the California Department of Toxic Substances Control or the California Department of Public Health.
Reedley officials also brought in the federal Centers for Disease Control, but the CDC’s online newsroom shows nothing on the secret lab containing rubella, E. Coli, malaria samples and such. Reedley officials also brought in the FBI but at the end of July the bureau’s website reported nothing on the secret lab.
“At the outset of August, the Fresno Bee and Sacramento Bee had not covered the story. Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued no statement on the lab and neither had the California Department of Toxic Substances Control or the California Department of Public Health.”
Or anyone from the Biden Administration. Most of the media is not covering this. What in the hell is going on??? IMHO this is a huge story.
Is it true the lab was funded by Newsom?
IMHO this is a huge story.
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. ditto
I bet it’s the tip of the iceberg.
( wonder if the “ big smile guy “
got 10% of that ca.gov money used to start that “ business”.)
“run by a shady Chinese company” = Run by the Chinese communist party.
“none of organisms found are suitable for bioweapon development”
Except they were working with COVID, and COVID has already been deployed as a bioweapon.
Bet’cha it ain’t the only one.
I would personally recommend that every big city in the US starts looking for things “out of the normal” with all the folks crossing the border that we can’t positively identify. Who knows what they might find if they actually begin to look.
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