{"id":35611,"date":"2010-11-17T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=35611"},"modified":"2020-07-27T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:29:40","slug":"responsibility-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"It Ain’t Whatcha Do, It’s The Way That You Do It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/span>.. and that’s what gets results!<\/p>\n

This may seem a little trite for a business sustainability and CSR blog.\u00a0 After all, thinking about your business’ effects beyond the simple commercial supply of product or services is the very definition of sustainability.\u00a0 However, a particularly pertinent example surfaced last week.<\/p>\n

Archimedes Pharma is (according to their website) an international specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the oncology, pain, neurology, and critical care sectors.\u00a0 One of their products is sodium thiopental, whose Wikipedia entry<\/a> states:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
\n

Sodium thiopental, better known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories), thiopental, thiopentone sodium, or Trapanal (also a trademark), is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anaesthetic. … Thiopental is a core medicine in the World Health Organization’s “Essential Drugs List”, which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic healthcare system.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In short, it’s not just a painkiller .. it’s one of the fundamental painkillers which is used to baseline the availability of a basic healthcare. Good stuff, you would think, especially as <\/span>Archimedes Pharma are the only licensed manufacturer of\u00a0 sodium thiopental in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

Market cornered you may think, but wait a sec.\u00a0 Like most barbiturates, if given in large doses <\/span>sodium thiopental can be fatal.\u00a0 So fatal, in fact, that it’s used as the “Lethal Injection” method of execution in Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n

And here’s the issue.\u00a0 On 27th October 2010 <\/span> Jeffrey Landrigan, a prisoner in the state of Arizona, was executed by lethal injection.\u00a0 Shortly after his execution the state’s attorney general revealed that the specific dose used was sourced from the UK.<\/p>\n

And there’s only one manufacturer of sodium thiopental in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who What Where When How …. WHY?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The purpose of this blog is not to point fingers or deal in ethical morality.\u00a0 I have a very well worn soap box about morality, and its long and short is that ethics and morality have no place in the sustainability agenda.<\/p>\n

However transparency is <\/strong>part of of the sustainability agenda, because transparency is all about trust and without trust there can be no voluntary disclosure of sustainability KPIs.<\/p>\n

Archimedes Pharma acknowledges<\/a> that it has supplied sodium thiopental to the US but denies that it has knowingly supplied it to the State of Arizona for the purposes of execution.\u00a0 The State of Arizona, for its part, acknowledges that it has sourced four doses of the drug from the UK but declines to say from whom.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is this kind of silly obfuscation which gives business, and the sustainability and CSR movement <\/span>in particular,<\/span> a bad name.\u00a0 Far better to be transparent and say whether (or not) you supply a drug for execution rather than hide behind words and spin.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is my opinion.\u00a0 Another would be that the use a product is put to should have no bearing upon the manufacturer.\u00a0 If a supply contract is entered into in good faith then the supplier should instinctively develop a blind spot for how their product is used once delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you think .. should a manufacturer get involved in how their product is used, or should it be nothing to do with them? Which option is the sustainable option and which, if you’re interested in such terms, is ethical or responsible? <\/span><\/p>\n

Picture Credit<\/strong>: The Injection by alexnormand<\/a> under Creative Commons Attribution License<\/a>. Trimmed by Chris Milton.<\/sup>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

.. and that’s what gets results! This may seem a little trite for a business sustainability and CSR blog.\u00a0 After all, thinking about your business’ effects beyond the simple commercial supply of product or services is the very definition of sustainability.\u00a0 However, a particularly pertinent example surfaced last week. Archimedes Pharma is (according to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6698,6696,6694,6693,6697,6695,1268],"class_list":{"0":"post-35611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-csr","8":"tag-archimedes-pharma","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-banarama","11":"tag-fun-boy-three","12":"tag-jeffrey-landrigan","13":"tag-sodium-thiopental","14":"tag-wikipedia","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\nProduct, Responsibility and Transparency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Should a manufacturer be responsible for the way their products are used? What is the ethical, responsible or sustainable option?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Product, Responsibility and Transparency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Should a manufacturer be responsible for the way their products are used? What is the ethical, responsible or sustainable option?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Corporate Eye\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-11-17T09:53:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-07-27T13:29:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris Milton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lucynixon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lucynixon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chris Milton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chris Milton\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/fa3f2a7cc78f97944265f3ef342cc91f\"},\"headline\":\"It Ain’t Whatcha Do, It’s The Way That You Do It…\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-17T09:53:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-27T13:29:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\"},\"wordCount\":570,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Archimedes Pharma\",\"arizona\",\"banarama\",\"fun boy three\",\"Jeffrey Landrigan\",\"sodium thiopental\",\"wikipedia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Corporate social responsibility\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\",\"name\":\"Product, Responsibility and Transparency\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-17T09:53:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-27T13:29:40+00:00\",\"description\":\"Should a manufacturer be responsible for the way their products are used? What is the ethical, responsible or sustainable option?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg\",\"width\":280,\"height\":284},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"It Ain’t Whatcha Do, It’s The Way That You Do It…\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/\",\"name\":\"Corporate Eye\",\"description\":\"...compare, compete, excel\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Corporate Eye\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png\",\"width\":283,\"height\":42,\"caption\":\"Corporate Eye\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/lucynixon\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/fa3f2a7cc78f97944265f3ef342cc91f\",\"name\":\"Chris Milton\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2792fb7d252b600b05e8d6f2728d41c876936681638ee9a81180f881419587e6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2792fb7d252b600b05e8d6f2728d41c876936681638ee9a81180f881419587e6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chris Milton\"},\"description\":\"A former CTO, Chris has a broad and varied background. He\u2019s been involved with blue chips, consultancies & SMEs across a wide variety of sectors and has worked in Europe, the Middle East and Australia. In 2007 he decided to combine his knowledge of business and IT with his passion for all things sustainable and has been busy writing ever since. However, his greatest ambition remains to brew the perfect cup of coffee.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.britesprite.co.uk\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/author\/chrism\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Product, Responsibility and Transparency","description":"Should a manufacturer be responsible for the way their products are used? What is the ethical, responsible or sustainable option?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Product, Responsibility and Transparency","og_description":"Should a manufacturer be responsible for the way their products are used? What is the ethical, responsible or sustainable option?","og_url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/","og_site_name":"Corporate Eye","article_published_time":"2010-11-17T09:53:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-07-27T13:29:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":280,"height":284,"url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Chris Milton","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lucynixon","twitter_site":"@lucynixon","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chris Milton","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/"},"author":{"name":"Chris Milton","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/fa3f2a7cc78f97944265f3ef342cc91f"},"headline":"It Ain’t Whatcha Do, It’s The Way That You Do It…","datePublished":"2010-11-17T09:53:25+00:00","dateModified":"2020-07-27T13:29:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/"},"wordCount":570,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg","keywords":["Archimedes Pharma","arizona","banarama","fun boy three","Jeffrey Landrigan","sodium thiopental","wikipedia"],"articleSection":["Corporate social responsibility"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/","name":"Product, Responsibility and Transparency","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg","datePublished":"2010-11-17T09:53:25+00:00","dateModified":"2020-07-27T13:29:40+00:00","description":"Should a manufacturer be responsible for the way their products are used? What is the ethical, responsible or sustainable option?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/The-Injection-trim.jpg","width":280,"height":284},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/responsibility-transparency\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"It Ain’t Whatcha Do, It’s The Way That You Do It…"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/","name":"Corporate Eye","description":"...compare, compete, excel","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization","name":"Corporate Eye","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png","width":283,"height":42,"caption":"Corporate Eye"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/lucynixon"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/fa3f2a7cc78f97944265f3ef342cc91f","name":"Chris Milton","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2792fb7d252b600b05e8d6f2728d41c876936681638ee9a81180f881419587e6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2792fb7d252b600b05e8d6f2728d41c876936681638ee9a81180f881419587e6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Chris Milton"},"description":"A former CTO, Chris has a broad and varied background. He\u2019s been involved with blue chips, consultancies & SMEs across a wide variety of sectors and has worked in Europe, the Middle East and Australia. In 2007 he decided to combine his knowledge of business and IT with his passion for all things sustainable and has been busy writing ever since. However, his greatest ambition remains to brew the perfect cup of coffee.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.britesprite.co.uk"],"url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/author\/chrism\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Lucy Nixon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51198,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions\/51198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}