Buildings 100 and 101 at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center
Established
1954
Budget
$16.5 million
Field of research
Foreign animal diseases
Director
Dr. Larry Barrett
Location
Plum Island, New York, U.S. 41°10′44″N72°12′20″W / 41.178889°N 72.205556°W / 41.178889; -72.205556
ZIP code
11957
Operating agency
United States Department of Homeland Security
Website
DHS site
Map
Location in Long Island
Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of foreign animal diseases of livestock. It is a national laboratory of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Directorate for Science and Technology (S&T), and operates as a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).[1] The facility's director is Dr. Larry Barrett.[2]
Isolated on Plum Island off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, the center has been tasked with protecting America's livestock from animal diseases since 1954. It is the only facility in the country authorized to work with live foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) samples, and specializes in the study of FMD and African swine fever.[3] At the height of the Cold War, study of biological weapons for use against livestock was conducted at the site, ending in 1969 when President Nixon declared an end to the United States' offensive bioweapons program. Today the facility maintains laboratories up to biosafety level 3, and has remained controversial as a result of its high risk work and proximity to the New York metropolitan area.
The facility is slated for closure in 2023, with work moving to the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility under construction in Manhattan, Kansas.
^"PIADC Fact Sheet" (PDF). Department of Homeland Security.
^"Inside the mysterious Plum Island Animal Disease Center". NBC4 WCMH-TV. 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
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