[Snowy]

That is not what the story said. It said they bought $35,000 worth of candy, not that they returned it. Any store that puts an opened bag of returned candy back on the shelf is begging for a lawsuit. If that candy contained smallpox and hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands died from it, the resulting lawsuit would wipe that store chain off the face of the earth.

http://www.domtalk.com/shownotes.html

This link it to a local radio station I listen to once in a while. Read the "Wednesday" notes. The candy was RETURNED. And, I listened to part of the show and it was confirmed that the candy was put back on the shelves after the health department "couldn't see anything wrong with the candy". Let me ask you a question. Would you eat this candy knowing what actually happened?

[Principled]

I was about to ask the same ?...I saw nothing about returning the candy in the article.

So what's the deal?

[Don Joe]

"the candy was put back on the shelves after the health department 'couldn't see anything wrong with the candy'."

They must have some mighty powerful eagle-eyes to be able to visually detect a microscopic amount of smallpox if it was present.