Johnson & Johnson has become synonymous with their product. it has become toast for the world, doctors recommended it and parents swore by it and almost, every child has used Jhonson & Johnson products, you could find their products in most homes around the world in fact you never bought baby powder you brought Johnson’s baby powder.
Johnson powder has been pulled out from the market, they will not be selling talc based powder anymore insted they will sell corn starch based powder. The talc based product was linked to cancer with then lead to thousands of law suits from women around the world. The allegation that the powder has traces of asbestos. Asbestos is a mineral that can be mined from the earth. Until the 1970s it was used in construction, it reacts well against heat and corrosion downside to asbestos was that it causes cancer. Baby products is to keep the skin dry to prevent all sorts of rashes and talcum gets the job done. Talc is also a mineral.
In the year 2018 there was a big lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, the company was order to pay $4.4 billion to 22 women. $550 million in compensation. $4.1 billion in punitive damage. These 22 women said that it gave them ovarian cancer. A 2018 investigation revealed that Johnson & Johnson knew about the problem and that the powder did contain asbestos in the bottles.
1971 to 2000 Johnson & Johnson routinely tested positive for asbestos, internal documents revealed the same but the company continued to deny the allegations. 2020 the bad press was becoming to much to handle so Johnson & Johnson pulled their talcum powder from USA and Canada. The company blamed it on misinformation. 38000 thousand cases are still pending against the company. The company then put forth a statement in media say that “ As part of a world wide portfolio assessment we have made the commercial decision to transition to an all corn starch based baby powder portfolio”, as the company knew about the problem in their products they put this statement in the media so as to be in the good books of the buyers.