Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 10/2/19


The USDA has named the executive director of Canada’s National Centers for Animal Disease to head the new U.S. National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, KS. Dr. Alfonso Clavijo’s appointment as NBAF’s first director is the latest indication that USDA’s long transition from conducting its most dangerous animal research on Plum Island in the waters off New York State to the Kansas State University campus is about over.

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