Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection
The company has spent billions on cases about one of its most popular products. As its executives try a brazen new legal strategy to stop the litigation, corporate America takes note.
"But what few of those consumers grasped until a series of baby-powder cases began to go to trial was that, for decades, the company had known that its powders could contain asbestos, among the world’s deadliest carcinogens."
Check your OTC and prescription meds for talc as an inactive ingredient. I found it commonly listed as an inactive ingredient in aspirin. That is nuts IMHO. A couple of aspirin manufacturers make a perfectly presentable aspirin tablet whose only added inactive ingredient is starch.
excellent
And we are expecting these guys to find a cure! 😆
No . A forum member will discover it in their vegetable garden. Much more likely
A forum member is more reliable and trustable than those leeches trying to make a living out of people misery.
it's a mixed bag
An excuse worse than a sin!
"And then, quietly, the company embraced a strategy to circumvent juries entirely. Deploying a legal maneuver first used by Koch Industries, Johnson & Johnson, a company valued at nearly half a trillion dollars, with a credit rating higher than that of the United States government, declared bankruptcy. "
This will evaporate 40,000 pending cases - leaving tens of thousands of women to die with no recourse.
"According to one company estimate, between 1930 and 1990, baby powder was used on roughly half the children born in the United States. A marketing PowerPoint from 1998 described the baby division as the company’s “#1 asset,” critical to the “deep personal trust” that consumers had for the brand over all. So popular was the baby powder that the company had bought talc mines to bolster and control its supply, selling off some of the talc for use in roofing and paint products and keeping the rest for use on humans. The company’s mines were in Vermont, where many of the talc deposits are thought to contain asbestos. (Geologists working for the state noted the ubiquity of asbestos there as early as 1872.)"
Mining talc in areas where it is known to "ubiquitously" contain asbestos? JFC!
A solvent company declaring bankruptcy to dodge legal accountability and the repercussions of harming thousands of people? OMG!
Not surprising ! this is what happens when we decree, via globalization, that Money is King.
I would say incredible but I guess I am not surprised. Corporate greed seems wildly rampant.
I think I read something that said not to eat anything that did not exist before 1900. I think we might be able to say not to use anything that did not exist before 1900. Except for computers. Computers are cool.
"... not to eat anything that did not exist before 1900." Well put.
becuase everyone lived longer and more disease free lives before 1900...
I'm Not Letting this Stop my Curcumin Use (but I am going to re-evaluate). I use Dr's Best Meriva, which is supposed to be different.
Need to separate types of PDWhich is the best mask to prevent COVID-19 and how do cloth, disposable, N95, and KN95 masks compare? How can I stop glasses from fogging?
BioVie announces treatment of 1st patient in Phase 2 clinical trial of NE3107,ERK inhibitor that selectively inhibits neuroinflammation
Your 'teeth and gums' could be CAUSING your PD!
