Inawritten statement, Bayer said "that itmistakenly did notinform" theF. D. A. of the studyandadded, "Thisdatawas not Shared immediately with the agency because it was preliminary in nature."
Even though the sample card was half of the size of an actual Social Security card, was writtenin red, and had Specimen writtenin bold (see above), many people mistakenly thought it was their own Social Security number.