More than $100 million has been awarded to plaintiffs accusing Johnson & Johnson of failing to take action after a potential link was discovered between talc powder and ovarian cancer. Yet, the company continues to manufacture talc-based products and insists that the ingredient is safe.
Attention was first drawn to talc when it was removed from J&J baby powders in the 1970s. Talc was quietly replaced with corn starch, but other products ...
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When a St. Louis jury found that Johnson & Johnson talc was not only responsible for a woman’s fatal case of ovarian cancer, but had also known about talc’s dangers for decades, it was only a matter of time before more information on the topic would be forced out of the shadows.
