Getty By Rayna Reid ·July 29, 2021July 29, 2021Yesterday, Ben Crump and Paul Napoli, nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorneys …
Lawsuit Filed Against Johnson & Johnson for Targeting Products Linked to Cancer to Black Women, Group Alleges
Black Women Advocacy Group Filed Lawsuit
A Black women’s advocacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Johnson & Johnson of selectively marketing the company’s talcum-based products;
Including Johnson’s Baby Powder, to African-American women despite knowing for years that the items had been linked to ovarian cancer, an allegation J&J denies.
The pharma giant sold talc-based powder for more than a century, according to its website;
Before issuing a recall of 33,000 bottles in 2019 and discontinuing its sale in the United States and Canada in May 2020.
But even then J&J said it would allow existing inventory to be sold until it runs out.
Attorneys for the National Council of Negro Women, including prominent civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump, filed their complaint in the Superior Court of New Jersey;
Tuesday morning before hosting a press conference at the council’s office in Washington D.C. a short time later.
AMERICAN Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society says talc that has asbestos in it “is generally accepted as being able to cause cancer if it is inhaled,” but notes that “the evidence about asbestos-free talc is less clear.
“The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer says talc that contains asbestos as “carcinogenic to humans” and classifies the use of talc-based body powder on genital areas as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” according to the ACS.
Most experts agree more research is needed.
National Council Of Negro Women
The National Council of Negro Women’s lawsuit filing came less than two months after the US Supreme Court declined to review a Missouri appeals court ruling;
That upheld a billionaward to a group of women who sued J&J after developing ovarian cancer, which a jury determined stemmed from exposure to asbestos in the company’s talcum-based powders.
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