First, the company leadership knowingly replaced the naturally occurring ingredients with the synthetic ingredients without changing the label on the packaging. This action violated the regulations set in place in the 1960s allowing consumers to have adequate and truthful information about the products they purchase. Second, the chemicals the company used to replace the natural ingredients are known to cause serious physical side effects including heart attacks and strokes. These side effects are a result of the stronger potency of the chemically generated ingredients as opposed to the naturally occurring ingredients the company originally utilized for the products. Finally, there is a dangerous lack of oversight by FDA regulators into the safety violations of companies such as Chemins leading to a reduced rate of public health and safety.
Per Organic Consumers Association, Irradiation is a ‘magic bullet’ that will enable the company to say that the product was ‘clean’ when it left the packing plant. The claim, more rather, lacks the key source in evidence, for even the best sanitation and standard antibacterial treatments cannot ensure safety in foods. In addition, irradiation cannot occur properly if the food is too heavily contaminated, preventing industries from using this practice as a substitution for good sanitation practices. Irradiation is not harmful in producing resistant strains of bacteria, nor does it make food radioactive. It simply reduces the amounts of bacteria in foods that may become potential illnesses in humans.
I could see I there were scientific facts or data that would confirm that statement to be true and that by running the water it prevented germs but nothing has been issued to the media outlets such as the TV news stations with this type of comment to my knowledge. If this was so all companies in the fast food industry, hospitality and more would have adopted that way of preventing germs. Starbucks defended themselves by saying, the running taps were needed to meet health standards. I would say they were just wasting water and had not clear understanding of what the consequences would be once the news got out into the public. This is very unfortunate when most countries in Africa do not have clean running water and here Starbucks is washing it down the drain without thought.
Monsanto Case – Number 1 Leonardo Caldeira Business Ethics– GEB 2430 Professor Jacqueline Cabrera– Broward College October 8, 2013 Monsanto is the world’s largest seed company that specializes in biotechnology or the genetic manipulation of organisms. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture that can effectively respond to various stakeholders? First ethical culture according to our book is the component of corporate culture that captures the values and norms that an organization defines as appropriate conduct (Ferrell, Fraedrich, Ferrell, 2013) In the 1960 Monsanto did not have any ethical culture and were harming the environment knowingly and they did nothing about it. Monsanto did not only damage the environment but also the people and animals health. Once again they kept going after lawsuits and years of change.
This was a massive project and resulted showed 61% of people preferred the new taste of Coca-Cola then the old taste, and a bonus was that the majority preferred it to Pepsi too. So when they released the ‘New Coke’ they expected it to be a big hit. This was not the case as sales plummeted into free fall and they were receiving around 5,000 complaining calls from American public a day. Then and after 11 weeks they were forced to result back to the original Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola key focus when releasing a new formula is market research.
Who made the greatest contribution? First of all, Pasteur demonstrated that fermentation is caused by the growth of micro-organisms, and that the emergent growth of bacteria in nutrient broths is not due to spontaneous generation but rather to biogenesis 'all life is from life'. Pasteur was convinced that microbes caused diseases in humans but his work on cholera had failed. He was never able to directly link one microbe with a disease, whereas Koch succeeded in doing this. While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory, he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true, although he didn't actually prove it, it just supported the theory.
Monsanto does not maintain an ethical culture as they let down their stakeholders ethically with the production of Agent Orange. “Ethical culture is the component of corporate culture that captures the values and norms that an organization defines as appropriate conduct” (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 2013, p. 16). In the early 1980’s, Monsanto began a new venture in biotechnology and in 1994 they introduced the first products of soybean, cotton, and canola seeds that were engineered to be resistant of the herbicide, Roundup. They called it Roundup Ready seeds. 2.
Alcoa’s CEO Paul O’Neil not only conducted an investigation but visited the company himself. He found out the managers were not reporting to center of operations as required by Alcoa’s policy. After succeeding satisfactory investigations Paul O’Neil said there was “a breach of the letter and spirit of our communication practices with respect to major indicates (Lawrence, A. T. & Weber, J. 2011).” He also discovered some other issues too, so he determined that adjustment to the management at the facility was necessary,
The water is purified and treated, increased up to a thousand times in price, and then sold to us consumers. Bottling companies are not required to inform us on their labels where their water comes from, so people are often surprised when (and if) they learn that they’re drinking regular tap water. Recently, Aquafina began confessing on its labels that their water comes from public sources, and Nestlé Pure Life bottles started indicating if the water in their bottles comes from public, private, or well sources. Dasani’s website, but not their labels, acknowledges that it uses local public water. Even when bottlers do list their sources on their labels, consumers may still be deceived.
The advertising used in Mexico was “snowsurfer” which the Mexicans can’t associate with as snow surfing is not common in the region. The team in Mexico reacted to price sensitivity effectively (13-14 pesos) to create a growing purchase pattern and this enabled them to counterfeit any competition from Crest or other local brands. In China, 28% of consumers’ reasons for purchasing toothpaste were based on the freshness of the product. After a massive investment in R&D, advertising and promotion, Chinese consumers responded above norms in context of purchase intent, value for money, believability, uniqueness and importance of main message. Comparing the trends of year 1 and 2 of sales, COGS, marketing expenses, and CM in China; prediction of year 3 could be increase in CM to 68% making the adaptation in China a success.