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Johnson & Johnson to pay $8.9 billion to settle claims that their talc baby powder caused cancer
One American News ^ | 4/5/2023 | Brooke Mallory

Posted on 04/05/2023 12:36:15 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits

The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) conglomerate is more than quadrupling the amount it had previously set aside to cover its potential liabilities by allocating $8.9 billion to address allegations that their talcum baby powder caused cancer.

A J&J subsidiary will re-file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and ask the court to approve a plan that would lead to one of the biggest product liability settlements in American history, according to a proposal made public on Tuesday.

The $8.9 billion that J&J would give to the LTL Management subsidiary would be paid over the following 25 years. The sum is higher than the $2 billion reserve created by the New Jersey-based corporation in October 2021.

According to the company, the new sum is supported by more than 60,000 parties who have filed claims alleging harm from J&J talcum-based baby powder.

In a Tuesday statement that maintained that the charges “are specious and lack scientific merit,” a company executive also stressed the fact that J&J will not be admitting any wrongdoing as part of the proposed settlement.

However, according to Erik Haas, global vice president of litigation at J&J, defending against the lawsuits in court would be very expensive and probably take ten years or more.

“Resolving this matter through the proposed reorganization plan is both more equitable and more efficient, allows claimants to be compensated in a timely manner and enables the Company to remain focused on our commitment to profoundly and positively impact health for humanity,” Haas said.

In the claims brought against J&J, it was said that using talcum powder for feminine hygiene led to the development of both ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that affects the lungs and other organs.

(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; johnson; powder; talc
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To: Sacajaweau

Asbestos and talc naturally occur together in metamorphic rocks, with the gradation between the two depending mainly on the heat & pressure of formation. It’s not like J&J spiked their product with asbestos.

Visual examination with a polarizing optical microscope is the only way, I believe, to differentiate talc and asbestos and perhaps other minerals in the same series. Chemically they are identical, only the “habit” ie. crystal formation differentiates these minerals. Getting a little asbestos in talc while mining is understandable.

Supposedly asbestos causes cancer because it forms in long, fragile crystal spikes sometimes visible, but also narrow enough, smaller than a cell, to penetrate individual chromosomes or telomeres and cause mutation in lung cells.


21 posted on 04/05/2023 1:03:21 PM PDT by F450-V10
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To: T.B. Yoits

Awhile back I was shocked to find real talc unavailable in stores, they use corn starch, which wouldn’t have worked for my homemade project that needed low friction between two surfaces.


22 posted on 04/05/2023 1:05:42 PM PDT by F450-V10
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To: sit-rep
I havent worn underwear since the 70s...

Well hopefully you haven't stopped wearing pants too - lol.

23 posted on 04/05/2023 1:06:26 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: F450-V10
wouldn’t have worked for my homemade project that needed low friction between two surfaces


24 posted on 04/05/2023 1:10:30 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: AAABEST
Sounds like more pig lawyers and OJ juries - as with Roundup/glyphosate.

That's because it is.

25 posted on 04/05/2023 1:12:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: T.B. Yoits

“talcum baby powder”

Okay, what about their Rona mRNA “vaccine?”

Sell, sell sell.

5.56mm


26 posted on 04/05/2023 1:14:15 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: cyclotic

They also drove DuPont out of business with the fake silicone “poisoning” science.


27 posted on 04/05/2023 1:15:17 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: pfflier

Oops. I said DuPont, it was Dow Corning.


28 posted on 04/05/2023 1:17:17 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: SgtHooper

I’m not sure if you remember the old cross sections they used to show in biology class, but the ovaries are pretty darn far up inside the abdomen. Not anywhere near where you’d be applying talcum powder if you are a sane person.


29 posted on 04/05/2023 1:30:35 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: T.B. Yoits

Talc and gas stoves. The tools of the devil


30 posted on 04/05/2023 1:32:15 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: dljordan
The J&J jab I got was not mRNA.

The J&J injection for the Wuhanic Plague is a DNA experiment, which is supposed to generate one version of spike protein in your body. Yes, it's different. But not very different.

31 posted on 04/05/2023 1:40:11 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Actually their “jab” was not an mRNA version.


32 posted on 04/05/2023 1:55:28 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Glad2bnuts

“The lawyers though, they SCORE and SCORE big.”

Yep

Then run for office with their financial future now secured, to continue screwling over the couhtry.
It has ever been thus . . .

Let it all burn . . .


33 posted on 04/05/2023 1:56:33 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Boogieman

I asked my wife about this. She told me her mother (b1922) would use baby powder in ways we would find nuts. I suggested it was not really different than putting the DE we use for the pool filter up her privates.

I was in your camp…but I guess the ladies of the 40’s and 50’s were not as aware as we.


34 posted on 04/05/2023 1:58:35 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: al baby

This is BS. I’m no fan of Johnson & Johnson but the lawsuits over providing a product to mortals is legal theft.


35 posted on 04/05/2023 2:06:26 PM PDT by Varda
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To: AAABEST

lol...


36 posted on 04/05/2023 2:32:57 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: NorthMountain

Types of COVID-19 Vaccines Available
There are four approved or authorized vaccines in the United States.
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are mRNA vaccines.
Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is a protein subunit vaccine.
Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen (J&J/Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine is a viral vector vaccine and can be given in some situations.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/overview-COVID-19-vaccines.html


37 posted on 04/05/2023 2:36:10 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Vermont Lt
Might not have been mRNA and the side effects might have been rare but exposing victims to Guillain-Barré or blood clots for a shot for a coronavirus is unacceptable.

In light of the newly documented risk, the Food and Drug Administration has updated the label of the vaccine to include a new warning: "Guillain-Barré Syndrome Reports of adverse events following use of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine under emergency use authorization suggest an increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome during the 42 days following vaccination."

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/12/1015366005/johnson-johnson-vaccine-is-linked-to-neurological-disorder-in-extremely-rare-cas

J&J Vaccine Gets Additional Warning on Bleeding Side Effect - The Food and Drug Administration said in a letter to the company on Tuesday that adverse-event reports suggested an increased risk of immune thrombocytopenia, or ITP, during the 42 days following vaccination. Symptoms include bruising or excessive or unusual bleeding, according to the agency.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/j-j-vaccine-gets-additional-warning-on-bleeding-side-effect?leadSource=uverify%20wall

38 posted on 04/05/2023 2:36:36 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: M Kehoe
See my post # 37
39 posted on 04/05/2023 2:39:05 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Same as with almost all other vaccines and viral infections. They pulled the JnJ covid vaccine after very few (out of more than 18 million people who got J&J, 60 cases of TTS were reported and nine people died. The analysis was based on suspected cases of TTS reported to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The risk appears to be greatest—1 in 100,000—in women ages 30 to 49.)

JnJ was treated very differently from pfizer and moderna - fedgov had huge skin in the game with those two, so they weren’t about to put scary warnings on those vaxxes.


40 posted on 04/05/2023 2:45:15 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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