Medical researchers believe women who sprinkle baby powder in their underwear may increase their risk of cancer, since the talc can travel from the genitals to the ovaries and embed itself in the surrounding tissue. The body cannot easily remove the particles that build up in...
Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating the company amid allegations Johnson's Baby Powder is contaminated with asbestos, a mineral linked to cancer. The health care products company made the disclosure in a regulatory filing, noting that the two agencies have requested documents ...
We stand firmly behind the decades of independent scientific analysis by medical experts around the world that confirms talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder is safe, does not contain asbestos, and does not cause cancer," J&J reiterated in the Johnson's Baby Powder announcement late last week. ...
The company last year set aside roughly $400 million to resolve U.S. state consumer protection claims. That was part ofa larger $8.9 billion effortin the bankruptcy filing of one of its units to settle claims its baby powder and other talc products cause cancer....
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FILE PHOTO: A Johnson & Johnson building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $100 million to settle over 1,000 lawsuits that allege the company's Baby Powder cause...
Johnson & Johnson questioned the reliability of the plaintiffs’ experts and the sciencelinking talcum powder to cancer. The company previously called studies linking cancer to talc “junk science.” October 2019 After the FDA found asbestos in a Johnson’s Baby Powder sample, Johnson & Johnson ...
On September 20, 2024, Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Red River Talc filed for bankruptcy in Texas. It is J&J’s third attempt to use the Texas two-step to end the baby powder cancer litigation. In the first two attempts, a judge in Johnson & Johnson’s home state of New Jersey reje...
Missouri and California have forced plaintiff attorneys to pivot to yet another baseless theory,” said J&J spokeswoman Carol Goodrich in a prepared statement. “Johnson’s Baby Powder has been around since 1894 and it does not contain asbestos or cause mesothelioma or ovarian cancer,” she said....
Earlier this month, a jury in Oregonawarded $260 millionto a local woman who claimed that the company's baby powder products were "directly responsible" for her cancer diagnosis in 2003. In April, a jury awarded $45 million to the family of an Illinois woman who died in 2020 from mesothe...