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Egregious safety failures at Army lab led to anthrax mistakes
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Egregious safety failures at Army lab led to anthrax mistakes | 15 Jan 2016 | A brigadier general who led an Army biodefense lab in Utah is among a dozen individuals facing potential disciplinary actions — including loss of jobs — for egregious failures that contributed to the facility mistakenly [sic] shipping live anthrax to other labs for more than a decade, according to the military's accountability investigation report that was provided to USA TODAY. The review found that top officials at the Dugway Proving Ground southwest of Salt Lake City had multiple warning signs of scientific and safety problems, yet they failed to take action despite earlier, serious incidents in the facility's labs during 2007-2011 involving anthrax, VX chemical nerve agent and poisonous Botulinum neurotoxin A…The review harshly singles out Brig. Gen. William E. King IV, who was in command at Dugway as a colonel from July 2009 to July 2011. King was promoted to general after leaving Dugway. Last February, King was named the commanding general of the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive Command at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
Source: http://www.legitgov.org/Egregious-safety-failures-Army-lab-led-anthrax-mistakes
