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Not only that, but what do you suppose they could do to the candy undetected to taint it? I suppose they might try using hypodermics to inject poison/anthrax/smallpox into the candy, but they'd have to be very careful not to leave an obvious hole.

I had to get a shot a few days ago - the first time in years - and I hardly felt the needle its was so thin. I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to do it and still have it go undetected. When I was a kid we just looked for opened wrappers. Anything that appeared sealed (like those bite sized Snickers bars) I wouldn't look twice at.

I think there's a little hysteria in here, I wait to hear something from the Gov. If we don't hear anything it pays to be cautious.

That said, If anyone wanted to taint candy they wouldn't have to unwrap anything. With Anthrax, all they would have to do is make a razor slit in the seam of the package and deliver the anthrax into the package. Maybe they could thermally reseal the opening, but it's not necessary. That's it...job done. Well, then they would have to get the candy into the system.