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STUART BRADFORD: STANFORD BUSINESS MAGAZINE

April 15, 2010

Stanford Business Magazine tapped Stuart Bradford for an article on how Botox, actually a toxin, is so easy to get in large amounts it could easily be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. Really.

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Botox is a highly diluted solution of Clostridium botulinum toxin, with similar products manufactured by just eight legitimate pharmaceutical companies around the world. Given high prices and high demand, it's not surprising that counterfeit Botox is beginning to show up on the world's black market.

Ordinarily that would be an issue for agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the FBI. But spurred, in part, by the research of Ken Coleman, the U.S. intelligence community worries that a terrorist group could buy botulinum toxin from an unscrupulous pirate lab and turn the drug into a terrifying weapon."

Art directed by Steve Powell.

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