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e FD;302a (Rev. 10-6-95) 279A-WE-222936-302 ;279A-BA-C10139 ; 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID Continuation of FD-302 of BRUCE E. IVINS ,On 03/03/2003 Page _ —2— sheet_to bé b7C knew that B3 was where IVINS had his lab space. During the fall of 2001, some DSD personnel had to be placed on Cipro as a precaution. This was not because the Daschle letter was processed in B3. IVINS advised that the "scuttlebutt" was that it was because of mishandling of material by DSD. If DSD i s up with regard to safety, the most that could happen to Cs iroula be a slap_on the hand. On the other hand, the same Tistake could affectl IVINS does not think that he should have been given the Daschle letter contained only in ziplocs, rather it should have been overpacked in_a_can.. He does not think that the letter should ,,. have ever been in[ __] since it is a Biosafety Level (BL) 2 DIF area. He also found out after the fact that it should not have been processed in B3. a received a "huge" Standard Operating Procedure = bé (SOP) for the handling of future evidenc lsaid bic that no evidence was to be taken into B3 or the Bacteriology Division in general. told IVINS rompted him to conduct his independent swabbing project. said that the way the letters were being handled was terrible. IVINS advised that the hot spots found in B3 during the swabbing may have been contamination from the Daschle letter.