University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 13, 1987
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Tea bag laced with cyanide discovered in N.J. grocery
United Press International
PRINCETON, N.J. — The person who put a cyanide-laced tea bag on a grocery store shell will be difficult to find because little evidence has been found, investigators said yesterday.
The unmarked tea bag can have come from any store in the Princeton area or elsewhere, officials said. Police have no suspects.
A caller who alerted authorities to the tea bag claimed that cheese in a Super Fresh store a mile from town was also poisoned with cyanide.
Despite no evidence of contaminated cheese, the New Jersey Health Department urged customers to return cheese bought at the store. Investigators think the caller was the same person who poisoned the tea bag, the department said.
The unidentified man, falsely claiming to be a reporter for a Trenton, N.J., newspaper, telephoned the store late Tuesday and said he received a warning that unspecified cheese products were contaminated.
The caller directed the store manager to a bag of Magic Mountain natural mint spice tea planted in the gourmet tea section and offered it as proof that the cheese was poisoned, officials said.
The caller used the name of a real reporter, but did not pronounce it correctly.
The presence of a lethal dose of cyanide in the tea bag was confirmed late Wednesday and health officials ordered the removal of cheese from the store. The poison apparently brought the tea bag into the store, which has not stocked the Magic Mountain brand for more than a year, a manager
said.
Officials would not disclose whether there were any fingerprints on the tea bag. John Roberts, president of Magic Mountain Herb Tea Co., said tracing the unmarked bag to the point of purchase would be virtually impossible. As many as 50 stores in Mercer County alone could be selling the tea, he said.
Cheese products at the store with loose packaging or other signs of potential contamination were X-rayed and tested chemically by the federal Food and Drug Administration and the State Health Department.
The state tested 57 cheeses. All were negative, Health Department spokesman Leigh Cook and FDA spokesman William Grigg said.
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