Watchdog: CDC property goes ‘missing’ thanks to human error

Published June 14, 2016 8:56pm ET



About $29.2 million worth of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention property was put at risk after the employees incorrectly recorded the items in the agency’s property system.

The Department of Health and Human Service’s Inspector General attempted to locate a sample of 250 items but could only find 245 in the property database, leaving the remaining five items to be marked as “missing.”

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