Sometimes, the strategy proved simple-sampling chocolates and jelly beans to detect substandard ingredients. Other times, the plan was more complicated-paying youngsters to cause a disturbance in front of a store to draw everyone outside long enough for investigators to secretly locate and copy company records. Even more unconventional means sometimes were employed. At one time, a can with a rat in it was used to train investigators to detect, by taste, cream that might have been contaminated by the rodents.
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