Posted on 12/14/2018 11:27:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Johnson & Johnson shares sank 8% Friday after Reuters reported that the pharmaceutical giant knew for decades that its baby powder contained asbestos.
Reuters reviewed documents, deposition, and trial testimony from at least 1971 to the early 2000s that it said showed powders and raw talc sometimes tested positively for small traces of asbestos.
Furthermore, "company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors, and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public," the Reuters reporter Lisa Girion wrote.
Johnson & Johnson issued a statement on Friday in response to the report, calling the article false and saying that its baby powder is "safe and asbestos-free."
This is not the first time the company, which also manufactures medical devices, has come under fire for issues related to its baby powder.
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Johnson & Johnson just poured gasoline on the asbestos litigation industry. I worked at a hq of an insurance company and there was a section of the building devoted solely to asbestos claims and litigation.
I see where this is going.
Everyone who get lung cancer can now sue Johnson & Johnson.
On July 12, 2018, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the companys talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.
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I dont believe this until additional evidence shows up.
How does anyone know what their mother put on their prives?
So unless you breathe via your va-jay-jay
The pharma cartel is about one thing - profits.
They do not care if their drugs heal you or kill you.
Either one is as good as the other, as long as it happens slowly.
But yeah I can see how, as they are both mined material, that you might get traces of one in the other. It is not like salt where you can purify it by washing.
Now are they going after the makeup companies as well? After all talc is in most makeups. Especially the cheaper ones.
I dont know if or where momma put it, but I know we had it in the house.
“Short, medium, or long fiber asbestos? The health implications vary wildly between the three.”
Not to a jury.
“Amazing their management could be so stupid thinking they could hide this.”
Get your facts right.
Well, we all know they talk through it.
Most likely, especially if they actually say "trace amounts".
Would love to read the theory behind the mechanics of how asbestos is supposed to cause someone to develop ovarian cancer.
PPM Would also be helpful information.
Never used powder for anything. Doesnt powder + moisture = paste? Id rather just have the moisture.
Paging Nathan Thurm....
Yes. I just presumed a journalist would be sentient enough to ask that but perhaps I expect too much of the profession.
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