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.
It's only a matter of time... When they manage to reduce us with the same rights as mice they will be able to do the correct experiments and find the cure soon. Lucky mice 🐭.
"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.)"
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.
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