J&J the company that would continue to sell its baby powder despite knowing it was giving babies cancer...yeah, that's the one you should get.
Sauce on babies getting cancer? The lawsuits I saw were about grown women -- generally older ones actually.
In canada the class action suit was open to anyone who could prove they bought the powder between such and such a dates. Tqlc and asbestos deposits are often near each other, or intertwined, so they committed the usual corporate crime of refusing to throw away product, just cuz it could harm the customer. Generally only heavy users were affected, sorta like that one guy that ate so much microwave popcorn he got popcorn lung from the fumes.
You're right as all I can find is it was causing ovarian cancer in women. Still a shitty thing to do by continuing to sell it.
Aren't they selling it now or what? Im not sure what you're supposed to do except discontinue the product because talc is naturally contaminated
To be fair Talc is mined, all mined minerals have some level of radiation. So putting talc on your self daily for years can lead to cancer.
Asbestos
Which is also mined....
This is like my own, personal McDonald's hot coffee thing. Putting talc ON yourself is fine, AFAIK. Putting it in yourself is not great. The allegation, again AFAIK, is that J&J knew that women were putting it in themselves, that they encouraged this behavior, and that such causes cancer. However, I'm not even sure the last part is true. It doesn't cause cancer as reliably, as, say, inhaling asbestos, and as we all know, everything is known by the state of California to cause cancer. With the benefit of 50 years of study, they were able to establish a correlation.
to be fair they fought this for 35 years and kept selling it to .. even keeping the name baby powder
Which is false advertising since the powder contains no baby whatsoever.
Pfizer made vioxx. Pfizers big drug was a mistake that didn't work for its intended purpose, so its biggest success is a happy little accident.
I'm not sure separating corporations into ones that can be trusted will work for such a decision
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