• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    “Hernandez testified in June, telling jurors that he would have avoided J&J’s talc if he had been warned that it contained asbestos, as his lawsuit alleges.”

    Got news for you — if there’s any asbestos in the talc, it likely wasn’t added by J&J. Asbestos occurs frequently where talc is mined. If J&J talcum powder has asbestos, chances are other brands of talc do too.

    The only way to avoid it is to switch from talc to corn starch based products.

    https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-ingredients/talc

    https://www.asbestos.com/news/2022/01/18/fda-testing-asbestos-talc/

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      I feel this gets overlooked too easily. Also, there was a recent article reporting that the study that proofed talc was responsible for the asbestos exposure, was fundamentally flawed and ignored major historic exposure to asbestos in its participants.

      Shit on J&J all you want, they deserve a fair bit of criticism, but the talc ruling is just plain ignorance by the jury.