DOJ Charges Another Chinese Researcher with Smuggling ‘Biological Materials’ into U.S.

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The Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday charged a citizen of China with smuggling biological material into the United States and making false statements.

The charges come a week after the DOJ charged two other Chinese researchers with attempting to smuggle a fungus dubbed “Fusarium graminearum,” into the U.S., which it claimed scientific research “classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon.”

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