“Until 1991, paraformaldehyde was also registered for control decontamination of laboratories and experimental animal facilities. However, all registrations for this use and many of the other uses described above were canceled due to nonpayment of registration maintenance fees by the manufacturer.
Subsequently, only two products remain registered. Since the laboratory use of paraformaldehyde has not been registered since 1991 and no alternatives are available, EPA has also issued several quarantine exemptions (and usually renews them every three years) to continue this use for specific federal agencies:
a.United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA) for use of paraformaldehyde in a poultry health laboratory in Arkansas;
b.U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) for laboratory decontamination; and
c.USDA to decontaminate high-containment microbiological laboratories at Plum Island, NY, and Ames, IA.”
And what kind of “scientist” are you exactly, if I may ask?
However, just how many of these labs are there and there are only 4 applications. An application leaves a footprint and this can be traced for various reasons.
One of my contacts asked....why didn't they just go to the chemical dept and get some paraformaldehyde and use it. Why do the application?
So there is a reason, if you put the two split failures back on the list. In order to keep operating and satisfy the license people, you have to have this PLAN OF ACTION. I could not remember that name last night. It is a written proposal that has to be approved of what are you going to do about this.
In order to use the paraformaldehyde in the plan of action, there had to be a section 18. So I feel they were forced to do it up front. I did get a FOIA and the application is signed by Dr. Carl Bausch and the target organism is listed as “ a dreaded disease of both livestock and man”. I can't think of a better phrase to use for anthrax without saying anthrax.
If it wasn't for anthrax then what was it for? And this is listed on the anthrax cleanup page.
If we had a really good reporter on staff we would assign the part about the chicken processing place to him and get him to tie it to a guy named Olson who died in Oklahoma covered with spots after he apparently survived a terrible lung infection.
I'm an entomologist, honey bee specially.