The new James Bond film is “almost on the mark” when it comes to showing how terrorists can manipulate pathogens to create bioweapons, and governments must do more to protect citizens from this threat, one of the world’s leading biological warfare experts warned last night.
A key concern, said Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, is the lack of any policing of 3,000 Level 3 laboratories which contain deadly pathogens.
Sedgefield-based Kromek has come a long way since its origins in 2003 as part of the University of Durham, and has already provided 25 countries with radiation detectors.
Kromek Group plc designs, develops and produces x-ray and gamma-ray imaging and radiation detection products for the medical, CBRNe security, Homeland Security and civil nuclear radiation detection markets.
