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Anthrax-Tainted New Jersey Mail-Handling Facility Could Reopen Next Year
A U.S. Postal Service mail-handling facility in Hamilton, N.J, that became contaminated with anthrax during the 2001 anthrax mail attacks could reopen by next fall, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Dec. 2). The facility has been fumigated with chlorine dioxide gas to kill lingering anthrax spores, and postal authorities have begun analyzing thousands of test strips to see if the effort was successful, according to the Post. Once that has been completed, air and surface tests for anthrax will be conducted, with positive results leading to further decontamination, said New Jersey Epidemiologist Eddy Bresnitz. As the building is renovated, which could begin by spring, additional sampling and testing will be conducted, he said. Bill Lewis, head of the postal workers union in the Trenton, N.J, area, said that only a few union members have said they will refuse to return to the Hamilton facility once it reopens. Meanwhile, administrative staff returned to work Friday at the Brentwood mail-handling facility in Washington, which had also been contaminated with anthrax and subsequently cleaned (Dale Russakoff, Washington Post, Dec. 9).
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