{"id":2031608,"date":"2023-09-14T10:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-china-panel-issues-subpoena-investigating-bio-lab-in-california\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:35:46","slug":"house-china-panel-issues-subpoena-investigating-bio-lab-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-china-panel-issues-subpoena-investigating-bio-lab-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"China panel subpoenas California bio-lab for investigation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-china-panel-issues-subpoena-investigating-bio-lab-in-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The House Select Committee on the\u200d Chinese Communist Party Subpoenas Chinese-Owned Bio-Lab in California<\/h2>\n<p>The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has taken a significant step in its investigation by issuing its\u2063 first-ever subpoena for documents\u200c and records related to a Chinese-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-discussed-making-bioweapons-to-target-races-covertly-launching-attack-with-asymptomatic-spread-report\/\" title=\"China Discussed Making Bioweapons To Target \u2018Races,\u2019 Covertly Launching Attack With Asymptomatic Spread: Report\">bio-lab<\/a> discovered in California.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It\u200c is deeply\u2064 disturbing that a Chinese \u200ccompany \u200dset \u2063up a \u2062clandestine \u200cfacility in small-town America that \u200dcontained, per the CDC, \u2018at least 20 potentially infectious agents\u2019 like HIV and the deadliest known\u2063 form \u2062of \u200cmalaria. We are grateful\u2062 to the city of Reedley \u200cfor \u2063their cooperation,&#8221; \u200dsaid Rep. \u2063Mike Gallagher \u200c(R-Wis.), chair of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American people\u2062 deserve answers, and we will get to \u200bthe bottom of this\u200d issue to \u2063ensure our adversaries are not \u2064endangering the safety \u200bof Americans on our soil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/suspected-black-market-chinese-biolab-in-california-now-subject-to-house-investigation-5479175\">Black Market Chinese Biolab \u2062in California\u200c Now\u200d Subject to House Investigation<\/a> &#8211; 8\/23\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/in-depth-more-details-on-black-market-biolab-surface-as-politicians-point-fingers-5459910\">IN-DEPTH: More Details on Black Market Chinese Biolab Surface as Politicians Point \u200cFingers<\/a> \u200c &#8211; 8\/11\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In response to the subpoena, officials from Reedley, \u200bwhere the bio-lab was located, have cooperated by providing thousands \u200cof pages of \u200ddocuments, hundreds\u2063 of photos, and hours of video footage, according to a Politico report.<\/p>\n<p>The joint\u2064 investigation panel, led by Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher in collaboration with the House Energy &#038; Commerce Committee, is currently reviewing these materials.<\/p>\n<p>When news of the secret \u2062lab first \u2064broke in\u2062 July, concerns about biosecurity\u200c were raised, particularly because the company\u2063 behind \u200bit, Prestige \u2062Biotech \u200d(formerly Universal Meditech Inc.), was \u200cowned by Chinese and Chinese-Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>At \u200cthe \u2064site, thousands of vials containing bacterial\u200d and viral \u2062agents, including coronavirus, chlamydia, E. coli, streptococcus pneumonia, HIV, hepatitis, herpes, \u200brubella, and malaria, were\u200c discovered. \u2064Additionally, nearly 1,000 lab mice were found in poor condition, and hundreds of\u2062 rats were dead.<\/p>\n<p>Reedley City, Fresno County, and multiple \u200cstate and federal agencies have joined forces to \u200binvestigate the lab. The company&#8217;s operations have been completely shut down, with \u2064all \u2063products, including COVID-19 virus test kits and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-more-details-on-black-market-chinese-biolab-surface-as-politicians-point-fingers\/\" title=\"New revelations on Chinese biolab black market emerge as politicians blame each other.\">pregnancy test kits<\/a>, being recalled by \u200dthe DEA.<\/p>\n<p>The transformation of Universal Meditech Inc. from an\u200c agriculture-oriented company in Tulare to Prestige Biotech, a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-china-panel-issues-subpoena-investigating-bio-lab-in-california\/\" title=\"China panel subpoenas California bio-lab for investigation.\">bio company producing test kits<\/a>\u200b for humans\u200c in\u200d 2019, \u2064remains a\u200c mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Public awareness of the\u2062 lab&#8217;s existence came late, as code violations were discovered in December 2022. Local officials in Reedley were instructed by \u200cfederal and state authorities to\u2064 remain silent about the investigation, citing protocol.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy \u200b(R-Calif.) \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/california\/article277965118.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for<\/a> a thorough investigation of the secret Chinese-run lab \u2063during his visit to Clovis on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to\u2064 the House Select Committee on the \u2062CCP, the Select Subcommittee \u200bon the \u200bCoronavirus Pandemic has also \u2062threatened to subpoena the \u200dFBI \u200band the \u200cDepartment\u200d of \u200cHealth\u200c and Human\u2064 Services if they refuse to provide information \u200cregarding the \u200bReedley\u200d lab\u200d by Sept. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has issued its inaugural subpoena for documents and records related to a Chinese-owned bio-lab in California. The presence of &#8220;at least 20 potentially infectious agents&#8221; including HIV and other lethal pathogens in a covert facility within a small American town is profoundly unsettling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2292,"featured_media":2031609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}