The US Postal Service intends to irradiate selected mail to sterilize it from possible anthrax contaminations, using high energy electron irradiation technology.  This could cause damage to research specimens and museum collection items.  For more information, please see http://www.si.edu/scmre/mail_irradiation.html 

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