BOCA RATON, FLORIDA — March 23, 2005 — John Y. Mason, President
and CEO of Bio∙ONE™, a Sabre/Giuliani Company, announced plans to decontaminate
the contents of the former AMI building, site of the first recognized anthrax
incident in 2001. The company will decontaminate the contents, which had been
boxed up and sealed, awaiting a decision on their disposition.
"This is the final anthrax decontamination of any kind in the country related to
the anthrax attacks of 2001. Our company is pleased to be responsible for
another safe and highly effective decontamination," John Mason said. "We will be
applying everything we've learned to enable us to decontaminate half a million
documents a day."
The document decontamination will be on a scale 20 times bigger than Sabre's
last document decontamination on Capitol Hill. The equipment needed for the work
was built in just five days and was designed by Sabre's engineers and
scientists.
Bio∙ONE™, a Sabre/Giuliani Company, will make the former AMI building its
headquarters. A re-opening event is planned for June. Former New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani will attend the re-opening and be among the first to enter the
building.
Sabre Technical Services began the former AMI building decontamination last
March and completed it in July, 2004. Disposition of the contents remained a
question until recently, and was resolved by a decision to go forward with
decontamination.
Sabre Technical Services uses a unique chlorine dioxide-based technology and has
extensive experience cleaning up anthrax-contaminated buildings with no residual
toxicity. The company was responsible for the decontamination of multiple
buildings on Capitol Hill, including the Hart Senate Office building, as well as
major postal facilities in Washington, D.C. and Brentwood, New Jersey.
The American Media Inc. building was the first place where anthrax was
discovered in October 2001. This contamination resulted in the death of an AMI
photo editor, Robert Stevens. The building has remained under quarantine since.
David Rustine, a Boca Raton based developer, purchased the three-story,
67,500-square-foot building in April 2003, with the goal of restoring it as a
safe workplace.
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