Johnson & Johnson will stop selling its talcum-based baby powder worldwide and replace the product with its existing cornstarch version starting next year, the consumer products giant said late on ...

"We will continue to vigorously defend the product, its safety, and the unfounded allegations against it and the company in the courtroom," Johnson & Johnson said Dave Quinn is the Deputy News ...

The maker of a popular baby powder brand expanded a nationwide recall of the product to nearly 42,000 bottles due to the risk they are contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, according to the US ...

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During the course of two days, a molecular biology and microscopy expert was questioned extensively about whether there was asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and if Pat Matthey had been ...

U.S. government-led research found no strong evidence linking baby powder with ovarian cancer in the largest analysis to look at the question. The findings were called “overall reassuring” in an ...

Another one bites the dust. A UK woman is addicted to powder — and not the illicit kind. Lisa Anderson, of Paignton, Devon, consumes a nearly half-pound bottle of talcum every day — a bizarre habit ...

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Johnson & Johnson said it will no longer sell talcum-based baby powder in the U.S. and Canada after thousands of lawsuits have claimed that the product causes cancer, which the company has denied.

Johnson & Johnson is discontinuing North American sales of its talc-based baby powder, a product that once defined the company’s wholesome image and that it has defended for decades even as it faced ...