A Utah woman has sued the Campbell Soup Co., saying she found a tooth in the chicken soup she served her 13-month-old son last year and now is afraid to eat soup, her attorney said.

"We're seeking unspecified damages. My client is worried about blood-borne disease (the tooth could contain), and also for shock. Now she's afraid to eat soup," attorney Daniel Irvin said Thursday by telephone from Salt Lake City.

"We don't comment on pending litigation," Campbell spokesman John Faulkner said, adding, that "We were never given a sample of what she described as a tooth. We couldn't come to any resolution."

According to her lawyer, Tina Keeney contacted Campbell last summer, reporting the tooth. But attorney Irvin said he told his client not to send the tooth in case it got lost in transit because he would then have nothing to show a jury.

He also said they took the tooth to a dentist who specializes in identifying teeth. "He thought this case was frivolous then he saw it and said 'yes, you have a tooth," Irvin said. The dentist identified the tooth as a molar that came from a teenager.

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