Woman Sues After Finding Tooth in Campbell's Soup (YUK!)

southerngale · #1 Postby **southerngale** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:42 pm

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A woman who says she found a human tooth in a can of Campbell's soup has filed a lawsuit against the company.

Tina Keeney, of West Jordan, had just heated up a can of chicken noodle soup and given some of it to her 13-month-old son.

While she was cleaning up, she noticed the boy had a hard, white object in his hand.

"It's gross enough as it is to find something in your food anyway, but to have it be a human tooth that was in someone else's mouth is just sickening," Keeney said.

She called Campbell Soup Co. headquarters in Camden, New Jersey to complain. Keeney said the person she spoke to was polite, if a little skeptical, asking if the object could actually be a chicken bone.

"I said, 'I'm not a dentist, but it looks like a molar to me," she said.

Campbell Soup Co. offered to cover the cost of the soup -- plus a little extra. They also wanted her to mail in the tooth.

Keeney went to a lawyer instead.

Since that July afternoon last year, attorney Daniel Irvin has had the object tested by a pathologist, who confirmed it is indeed a human molar, likely from a 13-year-old mouth. The expert noted the tooth, actually half a tooth, appeared to have been cut in some kind of manufacturing process, Irvin said.

Additional tests ruled out that the tooth belonged to anyone in the Keeney family, including her older daughters.

Irvin said he has spoken numerous times to officials at Campbell Soup Co. about settling the matter. They were unable to reach an agreement, and Irvin this week filed a civil lawsuit against the company in Utah's 3rd District Court.

The suit asks for unspecified damages on behalf of Keeney and her son.

"Here's a woman who can't eat soup, her family can't eat soup. And to be honest with you, I haven't eaten soup since this happened," Irvin said.

A spokesman for Campbell Soup Co. said it has not been allowed to examine the object Keeney says she found in the soup, but he offered no additional comment.

"I can't comment about pending litigation," spokesman John Faulkner said Thursday.

(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

opera ghost · #2 Postby **opera ghost** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:52 pm

Ew. That's all I have to say. Ew.

*shudder*

#3 Postby **wx247** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:06 pm

That makes me sick. Double ewww!

#4 Postby **Stephanie** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:16 pm

That's my feelings on the subject!!! :o

GalvestonDuck · #5 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:17 pm

SG, do you listen to Tom Martino? He was just talking about that on his radio show last hour.

Colin · #6 Postby **Colin** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:21 pm

Well...that's just gross...one time my mom found a screw in a piece of pizza she was eating, and she had it in her mouth and nearly choked on it! :o

I probably won't be eating Campbell's Soup much anymore! :o

JCT777 · #7 Postby **JCT777** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:23 pm

Wow! Looks like I am going to have to carefully inspect my Campbell's soup now before I eat it.

southerngale · #8 Postby **southerngale** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:26 pm

No GD.....forgive my ignorance here but who is Tom Martino?

This is very upsetting for me as Campbell's makes the best Chicken Noodle soup!! :roll:

I've tried others and nothing beats Campbell's but dang it...I must have have missed the label that said: Now....with teeth

GalvestonDuck · #9 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:42 pm

http://www.troubleshooter.com/

Tom Martino is a consumer advocate with his own radio talk show on some AM stations. Do you guys get KTRH up there in Beaumont? He's on in the afternoons from 1-3.

mf_dolphin · #10 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:24 pm

Now that's what I call a chunky soup! ;-)

#11 Postby **Stephanie** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:48 pm

mf_dolphin wrote:Now that's what I call a chunky soup!

AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

hunter84 · #12 Postby **hunter84** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:48 pm

mf_dolphin wrote:Now that's what I call a chunky soup!

ok all together everyone...... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

GalvestonDuck · #13 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:07 pm

The real question is -- where's the rest of the 13-year old? Cambell's Soylent Noodle Soup?

breeze · #14 Postby **breeze** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:36 pm

LOL...it seems that somebody was working very hard
at Campbell's to get the job done....

Amanzi · #15 Postby **Amanzi** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:42 pm

Never mind a tooth.... My mom was eating a meat pie and discovered a human FINGER in it!!! Now thats gross. Needless to say my mother does not eat pies anymore!

GalvestonDuck · #16 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:49 pm

Anyone ever read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?

southerngale · #17 Postby **southerngale** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 6:43 pm

Hey GD...yes we get KTRH here.....that's where I listen to the Astros if they're not televised

but I guess I've never listened to that guy....but it's possible I've heard him before and didn't know his name too.

Marshall....Amanzi......ugh!!!!!! I'm gonna join Steph with her original reaction. :18:

#18 Postby **Stephanie** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:36 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:The real question is -- where's the rest of the 13-year old? Cambell's Soylent Noodle Soup?

OMG!!!

Bron - A FINGER!?!?!?!? That calls for another barf bag - want to join me Kelly???? :o

Amanzi · #19 Postby **Amanzi** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:39 pm

Yup I kid you not... poor ol Ma turns green at the sight of a meat pie.. cant say I blame her :lol:

Great topic to read right now since im eating:o

pawlee · #20 Postby **pawlee** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:53 pm

so that's where the tooth fairy puts em'!

(find the tooth, win a quarter!)

Woman Sues After Finding Tooth in Campbell's Soup (YUK!)

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