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<span style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><time class="published-date">Apr 08, 2016</time> </span><div class="video-lead-text">Campbell's
Soup heir John Thomas Dorrance IV surfaces in the 'Panama Papers,"
while an unemployed Campbell's worker tries to find work three years
after the Sacramento cannery closed.</div> <span class="attribution"><span class="videographer">Dan Morain</span><span class="credits">The Sacramento Bee</span></span><div style="width: 1px; height: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 10pt sans-serif; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;">
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dan-morain/article70825282.html#storylink=cpy
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</span></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4">Campbell’s promises more than it can deliver</font></h1><div class="authorline" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on</span> <a href="http://acsh.org/2012/09/campbells-promises-more-than-it-can-deliver/" title="6:13 pm" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">September 18, 2012</a> <span class="meta-sep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://acsh.org/author/admin/" title="View all posts by admin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">admin</a></span></div><div class="pf-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;"><h2 id="h245" style="margin: 25px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 2.6em; font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;">And while we’re on the topic of BPA, we’d like to applaud ACSH colleague Jon Entine’s <a id="a48" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/09/18/campbells-big-fat-green-bpa-lie-and-the-sustainability-activists-that-enabled-it/print/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100);">recent exposé</a> of the disconnect between public relations and scientific evidence that has resulted from uninformed public outcry over the chemical.</span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.4em;"><span id="font57" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“How did the world’s largest soup company go from pariah to paragon over its use of the controversial chemical bisphenol A?” Entine asks in his investigative piece for </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Forbes</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. “It lied,” he explains. He then goes on to tell “an ugly story of what happens when ideology corrupts science.”</span><br id="br52" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br id="br53" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So what exactly happens? Well, in the case of the Campbell Soup Company, which recently bowed to public pressure by announcing that it would phase out the use of the BPA-containing epoxy lining in its canned goods, it makes a public announcement that it can’t deliver on.</span><br id="br54" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br id="br55" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While we won’t presume to summarize the entirety of Entine’s thorough investigation of Campbell’s handling of the BPA issue, the gist is this: Despite the company’s recognition that, according to the science, the BPA used in its cans is safe, they decided that it would be a better PR move to announce a switch to some other substance. The problem, of course, is that when it comes to finding a safe and effective substitute for BPA, nothing yet exists.</span><br id="br56" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br id="br57" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So, as Entine explains, Campbell’s said one thing to appease the activists groups that had been dogging it, and then did another thing when it came to the lining of their cans: They stuck with BPA. “We believe BPA is safe,” the company’s Vice President of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">old Entine. “But how can we be scientifically credible without appearing to be ignoring our consumers?” That, indeed, is the question.</span><br id="br58" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br id="br59" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Bloom is impressed. “Entine really nailed this one,” he says. “His logic and interpretations of the facts are dead-on. And he pulls no punches. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how these kinds of decisions are really made.”</span><br id="br60" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br id="br61" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You can read Entine’s answer </span><a id="a68" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/09/18/campbells-big-fat-green-bpa-lie-and-the-sustainability-activists-that-enabled-it/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(159, 32, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, along with his report of how manufacturers are struggling to find a substitute for BPA on grounds that are scientifically unnecessary yet publicly expedient.</span></span></p></div></div><div><span style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></div></div>