FDA's Forensic Center: Speedy, Sophisticated Sleuthing by Isadora B. Stehlin By the time the mouse and its Pepsi-can coffin reached FDA, Fred L. Fricke and his team of chemists and microbiologists didn't have much to work with. The mouse, found dead in a can of Diet Pepsi in New York, had already been examined by Pepsi officials. From there it went to a veterinarian on the East Coast. Next stop was a pathologist in Utah. Finally, the dissected mouse was sent to Fricke at FDA's Forensi ...