Comments on: The Situation of Repackaging http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/the-situation-of-repackaging/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matthew Kimel http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/the-situation-of-repackaging/#comment-13013 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:09:54 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=2247#comment-13013 I knew there was a reason I started liking Sprite more once they switched the cans!

]]> By: Maya, CVT http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/the-situation-of-repackaging/#comment-13010 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:35:53 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=2247#comment-13010 Interesting, especially considering the other side of the coin: sometimes companies will change labels when they have changed the contents of the product. For example, after the pet food scare I began to scrutinize the food (Wellness) that I was feeding my cats. When I noticed a label change, I immediately checked the ingredient list and discovered that they had in fact added contents to which my cat was allergic. Years before, Hill’s Science Diet had added some nasty byproducts and “meal” to their products, coinciding with a label change.

Sometimes we forget that the general public is in fact becoming much more science saavy. In the 1970′s and 1980′s, only doctors used words like “antioxidants” or “liposuction”. Hopefully word will get out to people that the label is just an advertisement, and that the label on the back is legally required to give the factual information on contents (thus the recent comedian jokes about content labels on the back of water bottles, which informatively say “Calories: 0″).

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