[Shermy]

How do officials believe Ivins made the anthrax? The FBI says Ivins used his lab to convert anthrax spores into powdered anthrax, but no proof has been presented that he had the equipment or the expertise to do so.

“I’m waiting for it to be shown that the quantity and the quality of the powders in the anthrax letters could have been produced in those suites” at Fort Detrick, said W. Russell Byrne, who retired from Fort Detrick in 2003 and was Ivins’ supervisor from 1998 to 2000. “I don’t know how to make the stuff,” he said.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-anthrax0807,0,4430001.story?track=rss

[jpl]

Amazing, isn’t it? Virtually all the real experts in the field say that this was the most incredible product they had ever seen, it was so sophisticated our government couldn’t even reproduce it, yet this one guy supposedly did it by himself in a few nights of overtime after 9/11.

[Carry_Okie]

I haven't really followed this case. I was merely questioning the use of a ball mill strictly as an engineering problem when spray drying gives good particle size control albeit it is more difficult to contain.