Johnson & Johnson has proposed to pay almost $9bn to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits it faces in North America that claim its baby powder and other talc-based products cause cancer.

A civil division of the Justice Department said that a private lawyer who recently received more than $600,000 from Johnson & Johnson shouldn’t serve as the legal representative for future ...

A Superior Court judge has awarded $7.5 million in punitive damages to the family of an engineer who died of mesothelioma, in ...

Johnson & Johnson has outlined a new settlement that it said would resolve nearly all of the lawsuits it faces over claims that its talc products, including baby powder, caused cancer. The ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a new assessment of talc’s potential to cause cancer, concluding that is it ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans.

Dynacare baby powder has been recalled for possibly having a “potential metal or chemical contaminant" The ... mineral that ...

Lawyers claim the company “knew for decades” that there was allegedly asbestos present in its talc products, although Johnson & Johnson (J&J) maintains that its baby powder was safe and ...

Talc is incorporated into cosmetic formulas ... comprised of the same chemical elements: silicon, magnesium, iron, oxygen and hydrogen. The different microscopic structure between talcum and ...

In response Erik Haas, J&J’s worldwide vice president of litigation, said “Johnson & Johnson takes the issue of talc safety incredibly seriously and always has”. Haas added that J&J’s own ...

Talc is also a mineral and is often found with asbestos minerals in the ground. They are both formed under similar conditions and they’re both made of the same chemical elements. So if you have ...