European scientists have developed a method to detect potential biological warfare agents in food. "A possible scenario for a bioterrorism attack could involve food contamination with protein toxins"A possible scenario for a bioterrorism attack could involve food contamination with protein toxins, such as ricin and botulinum neurotoxins, says Brigitte Dorner, researcher into microbial toxins, of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. However, until now detecting toxins in such complex samples has been difficult. Dorner and colleagues in Germany and Switzerland have devised a highly sensitive system that can detect trace amounts of the toxins in foods such as milk, baby food...