Johnson & Johnson to Finally Stop Making Cancer-Causing Baby Powder Globally

Johnson & Johnson is to stop selling and making talc-based baby powder globally, two years after it ended sales in the US and Canada.

The healthcare firm has faced tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers who allege its talc products, including the instantly recognizable brand of Johnson’s baby powder, caused them to develop cancer.

“As part of a worldwide portfolio assessment, we have made the commercial decision to transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder portfolio,” the company said in a statement. “As a result of this transition, talc-based Johnson’s baby powder will be discontinued globally in 2023.”

In 2020, the company announced it was to stop selling the talc-based version in North America because of a fall in demand after what it claimed was “misinformation” about the product’s safety and legal challenges.

This followed J&J voluntarily recalling a batch of its baby powder after U.S. FDA regulators found trace amounts of asbestos in the product.

Source: The Guardian

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