On April 11, 2012, Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman managed (in their usual hilarious way) to put their finger on one of the dilemmas facing the food industry when they penned a Zits comic strip showing Pierce grabbing a live…
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Pink Slime: A Lesson in Crisis Management
The term “pink slime” continues to dominate news desks across the country. Public backlash against processors of “lean finely textured beef” has pushed one of the largest ground beef processors in the United States, AFA, into bankruptcy. Other companies such as Beef Products,…
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Consumers’ Inability to Shape Up! Does Not Constitute Bodily Injury
THE SCOOP On January 30, 2012, a Texas federal judge ordered that Chubb Custom Insurance Company (“Chubb”) had no duty to defend its insured because the claimants in the underlying class action did not allege any “bodily injury” as defined by the…
The Pros and Cons of BPA
Despite an outcry by some consumer advocates, the FDA has declined to ban BPA (bisphenol A) in food containers. Interestingly, the FDA refused a ban because opponents didn’t provide enough data to support a rule change. Because the FDA said that…
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