Dr. Michael Skeels, Director of the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory at the time, said that the incident provoked such a large public health investigation because "it was the largest food-related outbreak in the U.S. in 1984".
当时的俄勒冈州公共卫生实验室主任迈克尔·斯基尔斯博士（Dr. Michael Skeels）表示，事件引发如此大规模的公共卫生调查是因为，“这是美国1984年出现的最大一起食品相关疫情。