Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling around 33,000 bottles of baby powder in the U.S. after FDA found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken from a bottle purchased online, according to Reuters. The FDA test indicated the presence of no greater than 0.00002% of chrysotile asbestos in the tested...
Oklahoma—Judge Thad Balkman of Cleveland County District Court ruled on Monday that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) had intentionally downplayed the risks and oversold the benefits of opioids, and ordered it to pay the state $572 million, according to The New York Times. The Times notes that this is the first...
New Brunswick, NJ--Not only was Johnson & Johnson (J&J) baby powder sometimes contaminated with asbestos, Reuters reported that internal documents show that the company has known about it for decades. There are now, Reuters says, around 11,700 plaintiffs alleging that the company’s baby powder caused their cancers. J&J has been...
