Johnson & Johnson Stops Selling Baby Powder Over Endless Cancer Suits
By Elite Uganda
Baby powder makers Johnson & Johnson have closed down their companies as a result of piling law suits from clients who accuse the company’s products of causing cancer in their babies.
Healthcare
giant Johnson & Johnson says North American sales had shrunk partly because
of a "constant barrage" of advertising by lawyers seeking clients to
claim against the company.
J&J has
been at the centre of claims for years that its talcum powder causes cancer.
But it has always strenuously defended the product's safety.
Johnson
& Johnson has been ordered to pay out billions of dollars in compensation,
but has so far always successfully appealed against these verdicts.
Almost
20,000 people in the US have so far lodged claims against the company.
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