Carcinogenic baby powder, Johnson & Johnson forced to pay a new maxi compensation

    Carcinogenic baby powder, Johnson & Johnson forced to pay a new maxi compensation

    Johnson & Johnson will have to pay $ 29 million in damages to a woman suffering from cancer after using the company's products.

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    29 million dollars: this is the amount of compensation that Johnson & Johnson will have to pay to a woman suffering from cancer caused by the asbestos present in her talc. The producer group of the notorious killer powder thus collects yet another legal defeat.





    The sanction is ordered by a Californian judge in a case in which the woman claims that the cancer she suffers from, the mesothelioma, was caused byasbestos present in the talcum powder of the American company.

    The verdict of the California Higher Court in Oakland marks the latest defeat for the company in the face of more than 13 talc-related lawsuits in the States alone.

    But the company wasted no time in announcing that it will appeal, citing "serious procedural and evidentiary errors" during the trial.

    "We respect the legal process and reiterate that jury verdicts are not medical, scientific or regulatory conclusions about a product," said Johnson & Johnson.

    The New Jersey-based company denies that its talc causes cancer, saying numerous studies and tests conducted by authorities around the world have shown it to be safe and free of asbestos.

    The lawsuit this time was brought by Terry Leavitt, who allegedly used Johnson's Baby Powder and Shower to Shower - another talc-containing powder sold in the past - in the 60s and 70s and was later diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2017. Jurors said the talc-based products Leavitt used were "faulty" and that the company failed to warn consumers of the health risks, awarding $ 29,4 million in damages to Leavitt and her husband.

    Leavitt's was the first talc case to go to trial since Reuters released a report in December in which J&J said they knew that talc was positive for small amounts of asbestos from the 70s to early 2000s.


    In short, history repeats itself: as more and more people sue for cancer, J&J denies that its talc - a natural mineral that is only composed of magnesium, silicone, oxygen and hydrogen, used in cosmetics as a natural absorbent for the skin - and promises to appeal.


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    Germana Carillo


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