http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011015/aponline151932_000.htm N.J. Postal Workers Get Anthrax Test By Sheila Hotchkin Associated Press Writer Monday, Oct. 15, 2001; 3:19 p.m. EDT TRENTON, N.J. –– A mail carrier and a post office maintenance employee have reported possible symptoms of anthrax and are being tested for exposure to the germ, postal officials said Monday. The announcement came as federal investigators searched for the source of a letter postmarked in Trenton on Sept. 18 that infected an NBC employee in New York with anthrax. Postal Inspector Tony Esposito said 246,000 pieces of mail from 46 mail facilities were processed at the Trenton Main Post Office on Sept. 18. Postal officials were working with the FBI to try to determine the source of the letters, he said. He said there was no evidence of any environmental exposure at the Trenton facility. Employees there were being given guidelines on how to spot suspicious packages, and business continued as usual. But residents are flooding New Jersey police departments with phone calls about suspicious packages, letters and substances. An employee from the New Jersey Law Journal was tested for anthrax Monday after finding a strange, sandy substance inside a corporation's annual report that reporters obtained for a story, said the newspaper's publisher, Robert Steinbaum. Steinbaum said he did not know who mailed the document. The newspaper's Newark office was evacuated for about an hour Monday morning while a hazardous materials crew removed the report. Newark police and state police and health officials did not immediately return telephone calls about the Law Journal incident. In Atlantic City, the Sands Hotel & Casino was closed for an hour Sunday after a prescription bottle containing white powder was found on a restaurant table. Police, firefighters, a hazardous materials crew and the FBI responded and detained more than 100 people. The powder turned out to be Old Bay seasoning, a spice brought in by a diner to use on food, authorities said. © Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
