Chinese post-doctoral researcher Youhuang Xiang stands accused of smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the United States and lying about it in a scheme uncovered by the FBI’s Indianapolis and Chicago offices alongside Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
For American farmers and consumers, this isn’t just a courtroom drama—it’s a direct threat to our agricultural backbone, with the potential for devastating crop diseases and massive financial losses in the billions if deadly E. coli strains spread unchecked.
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