We share a great deal of the biological equipment of sound production with apes.

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The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).

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The FDA has long considered that even minor changes in the production of biological drugs--including exactly the same isolation and purification procedures applied at significantly larger scale than previously--yield a distinct and new drug that must undergo an independent demonstration of safety and efficacy.

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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in February told the United Nations Security Council that U.S. intelligence indicated Iraq had production facilities for biological weapons "on wheels and on rails, " and on at least 18 flatbed trucks.

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After exhaustive study, the Bush administration concluded that, while the BWC annex is intended to make that treaty prohibiting the production, possession, and use of biological and toxin weapons more verifiable and enforceable, it won't do either.

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The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.

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This scuttled treaty is known as the BWC Protocol, since it purports to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 that bans the use, stockpiling and production of bacteriological weapons.

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When it comes to chemical and biological weapons, if you have the program you have the knowledge, you have the production capability.

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