We had just spent six months looking into a classic federal government screw-up. The FDA was supposed to insure that all food contaminated in a toxic warehouse fire got sent to local landfills in Kansas City, Kan. Instead, thousands of pounds of food that was either clearly contaminated or most likely contaminated was sent to consumers worldwide. What's more, the FDA allowed laboratories hired by food salvagers to guarantee that the food they released was safe.
After analyzing how the FDA mishandled the matter, we found the story was still missing something. Then, as I was rummaging around inside the FDA's electronic bulletin board (which reached through the FedWorld Gateway), I found what we needed. "In Kansas City, 18 people received the Commissioner's Special Citation for their salvage efforts during an underground cave fire FDA Kansas district office investigators reviewed reconditioning plans presented by firms whose products were adulterated in the fire.
So turned out that the guys who screwed up medal for the mess. Hell of a kicker. They wrote it for us.