Security lax on biological agents, nuclear materials

Monday, May 13, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Investigators reviewing federal safeguards against terrorism found lax oversight at hundreds of Agriculture Department laboratories where dangerous viruses are stored and say the Energy Department failed to closely track nuclear material sent abroad decades ago.

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