Bioterrorism

Sandia Decontaminant Cleaning Up Anthrax Locations

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 18th, 2001

Federal authorities are using a decontamination formulation developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories to help rid Capitol Hill buildings of anthrax.

Clean-up workers have taken quantities of the formulation with them into Congressional office buildings as one of the decontamination products selected to help remediate the Hart Senate Office Complex and the Dirksen and Ford Congressional Offices in Washington, DC.

They also are preparing to use the foam to decontaminate mailrooms on Capitol Hill contaminated with anthrax.

Two Sandia researchers are on site in Washington as...

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