The quickie "field test" tests for ANY Bacillus bacteria..not just anthrax. The specific anthrax test takes far longer.
The various false alarms reported is the quickie field test, as best I can tell, being reported by the media as "positive" for Anthrax. MAY be what is going on in Hastert's office, and appears to be what happened in the Reno NV Microsoft thing (this has been buried at the bottom of a lot of news articles today, but apparently the ENTIRE Nevada thing was a false alarm, no anthrax).
What are you talking about? What then is the point of a "field test" for anthrax. I heard the press conference where the Security Officer for congress or whatever he was say that they had "field tested" it twice, and it was positive for anthrax. Do you have special knowledge obout these "field tests"?
Also "Bacillus"="Bacteria". So what's up?