After Powell had made his presentation on such trailers in February, the Iraqis said they had mobile labs, but they were not used for weapons.
Such mobile labs were used for food analysis for disease outbreaks, mobile field hospitals, a military field bakery, food and medicine refrigeration trucks, a mobile military morgue and mobile ice making trucks, Iraqi officials said.
Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, said inspectors visited a number of the labs at several sites but found no evidence of chemical or biological weapons activity.
"The outline and characteristics of these trucks that we inspected were all consistent with the declared purposes," Buchanan told The AP, adding extensive forensic sampling had been performed.
