A box of baby powder worth millions of pounds cancer

“I remember lying in bed,” he says. Sue Rizzello One of her earliest memories, from nearly 60 years ago, is “when my mother would lean over me and use baby powder on me.”

Baby powder, or more specifically, talcum powder sold by the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, is “one of those things that’s been around my whole life… It’s deeply ingrained in the psyche that this was a gentle, safe product,” she says. Annie Kelly. ‘It’s been good for your baby. It’s good for you.

However, for Rizzillo, all that was changing. In her late 40s, she was diagnosed with aggressive ovarian cancer. Moreover, she believes that lifelong use of Johnson & Johnson baby powder is the reason.

Senior news writer Esther Adley Reports of a class-action lawsuit launched in October by more than 3,000 cancer survivors and their relatives allege that Johnson & Johnson knowingly sold talcum powder contaminated with asbestos, and tried to withhold evidence from consumers for years.

The company strongly denies this accusation, and stated that its baby powder complies with any required regulatory standards, does not contain asbestos, and does not cause cancer.