No, I am not reporting on some kind of Warhol retrospective. It seems that somehow small chunks of plastic found their way into a lot of cans of Campbell’s Soup.
The details of the recall are here.
I spent some time working in a coffee packaging plant and I know how possible it is for mechanical malfunctions to result in bits of mangled material going into the product. My workplace was small and there was a lot of hands on work done by people who cared. The only incidents that I can recall resulted in coffee worth maybe $200 retail being tossed into the compost because it might have some foreign material in it.
72,300 cans of soup is a huge oops. My sources offer no details as to the source of the plastic or how it got there.
This is a good example of how ubiquitous plastic is in our processed food chain.
October 7th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Not to mention the plastic that already lines those soup cans without an accident!