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From: olsen@ll-xn.ARPA (Jim Olsen)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Tylenol
Message-ID: <292@ll-xn.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 10:54:13 EST
Article-I.D.: ll-xn.292
Posted: Mon Mar 17 10:54:13 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 05:29:43 EST
References: <270@bu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Summary: Improbability of tampering at the factory

In article <270@bu-cs.UUCP>, bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
> It would seem to me very probable that if someone tampered with
> bottles from two different cartons in a row (say during a few minutes
> no one was watching) they would both end up in the same area...

If I remember correctly, the two bottles were produced at different
times, and passed through completely different distribution chains, yet
they ended up at stores within a few blocks of one another.  This is
what makes tampering at the factory seem unlikely.
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Jim Olsen   ARPA:olsen@ll-xn   UUCP:{decvax,lll-crg,seismo}!ll-xn!olsen