Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California

https://lemmy.nowsci.com/post/225465

Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California - nowsci

What was illegal about it? Was that warehouse not zoned for labs? Obviously poor storage and labeling practices, but surly (maybe) not illegal?
A lot of stuff sounded illegal. Poor storage is illegal when dealing with bio safety hazards of this level, poor labeling too. Sounded like they didn’t have protocols available or even approved by review boards which is illegal. I doubt they even had proper bio safety ratings which would be illegal in this case. The whole situation sounds extremely dangerous and I hope no harm has been done.