TRENTON, N.J. -- Officials have found two missing vials of anthrax mislabeled at a state lab among the samples taken from the postal facility that processed tainted letters in 2001.
The vials were among thousands of negative samples.
There was a transcription error in the numbers when they were labeled, state epidemiologist Eddy Bresnitz said.
Officials disclosed they had lost track of the vials nearly two weeks ago. Officials said they thought it was a clerical error and that no anthrax was actually lost.
The FBI was investigating how the vials were misplaced.
The anthrax vials were among 19,000 samples gathered at the Hamilton Township postal facility that handled some anthrax-laced letters soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Five people were killed and 17 were sickened, including five postal workers.
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