TB bacteria escapes into major store
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• An MP has called in the Freight Transport Association to help establish how deadly TB bacteria ended up in the curtain section of Debenhams department store in Plymouth, The bacteria, in a capsule the size of a pen top, came from the US and should have gone to the Centre for Applied Micro Biology and Research at Porton Down, Wiltshire.
FTA dangerous goods policy manager Chris MacRae outlined the stringent regulations which are in place to cover the transport of highly sensitive consignments to Gary Sweeten the MP whose constituency is in Plymouth.
An FTA spokesman says it is unclear which company was responsible for transporting the package to Porton Down.
"For some reason, the packaging got there and the contents did not," he says. "The point is how they became separated."