Country's Final Anthrax Decontamination To Be Completed This Month By Bio·ONE™

Project Will Be Largest Scale Decontamination of Building Contents in US History

Boca Raton, Fla. — March 23, 2005 — John Y. Mason, President and CEO of Bio·ONE™, a Sabre/Giuliani Company, announced plans to decontaminate the contents of the former AMI building, site of the first recognized anthrax incident in 2001. The company will decontaminate the contents, which had been boxed up and sealed, awaiting a decision on their disposition.

"This is the final anthrax decontamination of any kind in the country related to the anthrax attacks of 2001. Our company is pleased to be responsible for another safe and highly effective decontamination," John Mason said. "We will be applying everything we've learned to enable us to decontaminate half a million documents a day."

The document decontamination will be on a scale 20 times bigger than Sabre's last document decontamination on Capitol Hill. The equipment needed for the work was built in just five days and was designed by Sabre's engineers and scientists.

Bio·ONE™, a Sabre/Giuliani Company, will make the former AMI building its headquarters. A re-opening event is planned for June. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will attend the re-opening and be among the first to enter the building.

Sabre Technical Services began the former AMI building decontamination last March and completed it in July, 2004. Disposition of the contents remained a question until recently, and was resolved by a decision to go forward with decontamination.

Sabre Technical Services uses a unique chlorine dioxide-based technology and has extensive experience cleaning up anthrax-contaminated buildings with no residual toxicity. The company was responsible for the decontamination of multiple buildings on Capitol Hill, including the Hart Senate Office building, as well as major postal facilities in Washington, D.C. and Brentwood, New Jersey.

The American Media Inc. building was the first place where anthrax was discovered in October 2001. This contamination resulted in the death of an AMI photo editor, Robert Stevens. The building has remained under quarantine since. David Rustine, a Boca Raton based developer, purchased the three-story, 67,500-square-foot building in April 2003, with the goal of restoring it as a safe workplace.