Kansas officials press feds for biosecurity lab

By John Hanna

Published June 15, 2012 10:35pm ET

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Kansas officials press feds for biosecurity lab — FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010, a sign marks the future home of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, Kan. The federal government still underestimates the risk of a planned biosecurity lab in Kansas releasing a dangerous animal disease, and an assessment earlier this year suggesting minimal danger is seriously flawed, an independent report said Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) | Orlin Wagner

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials pressed the federal government Friday to move ahead with construction of a new biosecurity lab near Kansas State University, even though a new, independent report suggested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security still doesn’t have a good assessment of how safely it could operate.

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