This resource helps officials understand safe mail handling procedures and provides guidance on responding to potential hazardous materials exposure.
Over the past two decades, U.S. government offices and employees have been the target of multiple incidents using letters containing hazardous materials, including suspicious letters mailed to election offices in California, Georgia, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in 2023.
Since mail is a key component of both standard office operations and mail balloting across the country, this guidance document provides information for election offices on how to identify and handle potentially suspicious mail and respond to potential hazardous materials exposure while handling suspicious mail.
The guide also provides specific information on how to protect against the three hazardous powders of greatest concern, fentanyl, anthrax, and ricin, in addition to more routine mail hazards.
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This Cyber News was published on www.cisa.gov. Publication date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:43:06 +0000