Word: biohazards
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...Omen Safer America, a store recently opened in downtown Manhattan, sells personal survival kits including gas masks, biohazard suits and parachutes for leaping from burning buildings
...scale. MesoSystems, a young but profitable firm, sells to fire departments handheld devices that collect biological particles 0.5 to 10 microns across--anthrax, for one--and preserve them in a liquid for identification. MesoSystems supplies Lockheed Martin with an air sampler it uses in its Biomail Solutions product, a biohazard detector in field testing at some federal agencies. MesoSystems made about $250,000 last year on revenues of $7 million and this year hopes to gross more than $10 million...
...There was brisk and heavy foot traffic, mostly parents and their kids visiting Manhattan?s own theme park of death and remembrance. A mother and daughter walked north wearing particle masks. Two women passing them shot them a stern look, as if to say, ?This ain?t no stinkin? biohazard zone,? and the mother turned to argue, then kept walking away. Another family - mother, father, son - passed the masked duo, and the boy asked if it was safe down here. ?It?s safe for being here,? mom said. ?It?s not so safe for breathing.? They kept walking toward...
Kits to test for anthrax at home are now being marketed aggressively to consumers, but experts say home testing of any kind is a bad idea. The strips and swabs used by biohazard personnel to find anthrax in the field are not made for home use. They are designed for trained technicians equipped to handled toxic material...
...sort of kitschy street theater you expect in a city like San Francisco. A gaggle of protesters in front of a grocery store, some dressed as monarch butterflies, others as Frankenstein's monster. Signs reading HELL NO, WE WON'T GROW IT! People in white biohazard jumpsuits pitching Campbell's soup and Kellogg's cornflakes into a mock toxic-waste bin. The crowd shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho--GMO has got to go!" And, at the podium, Jesse Cool, a popular restaurant owner, wondering what would happen if she served a tomato spliced with an oyster gene and a customer...