EXHIBIT 5
                         Opinion of Martin J. Levitas

                         [Campbell Soup Company Logo]

                               Legal Department
                                Campbell Place
                         Camden, New Jersey 08103-1799


MARTIN J. LEVITAS                                     TELEPHONE (856) 342-6127
VICE PRESIDENT - LEGAL                                      FAX (856) 342-3936

                                                                  June 7, 2002

Campbell Soup Company
Campbell Place
Camden, New Jersey 08103-1799

Gentlemen:

          Campbell Soup Company, a New Jersey corporation (the "Company"), is
registering for sale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"),
$1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company's debt securities
(the "Debt Securities") to be offered from time to time pursuant to a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 being filed under the Act on the date
hereof (the "Registration Statement") and issued from time to time under an
Indenture (the "Indenture") between the Company and Bankers Trust Company of
New York, as Trustee (the "Trustee"), the form of which has been filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement.

          As Vice President - Legal of the Company, I am familiar with all
corporate and other proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the
Debt Securities, the Registration Statement and the Indenture. In such
capacity, I have examined originals or copies, certified to my satisfaction,
of such documents, certificates or other statements of public officials and
corporate officers of the Company and such other papers as I have deemed
relevant and necessary in order to give the opinion hereinafter set forth. In
this connection, I have assumed the genuineness of signatures on, and the
authenticity of, all documents so examined. As to any facts material to this
opinion that were not independently established by me, I relied on such
certificates or other statements of public officials and officers of the
Company with respect to the accuracy of factual matters contained therein.

          Based upon the foregoing, and the legal considerations that I deem
relevant, it is my opinion that the Debt Securities of a particular series
offered (the "Offered Debt Securities") will be legally issued and binding
obligations of the Company (except as may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of
creditors' rights or by general principles of equity) when (i) the
Registration Statement relating to the Offered Debt Securities, as amended
(including all necessary post-effective amendments), shall have become
effective under the Act, (ii) the Indenture shall have been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, and duly qualified
under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and (iii) the Offered Debt
Securities shall have been duly executed and authenticated as provided in the
Indenture and duly delivered to the purchasers thereof against payment of the
agreed consideration therefor.





          I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the reference under the caption "Legal Opinions"
in the prospectus forming a part thereof or used in connection therewith.


                                                   Very truly yours,

                                                   /s/  Martin J. Levitas
                                                   Martin J. Levitas