Research of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder included a prison study in which inmates, mostly Black men, were injected with asbestos. The study was intended to assess how asbestos’s effects on the skin compare to talc, the key component of baby powder.
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J&J faces lawsuit by Black women over baby powder and cancer
A lawsuit alleges Johnson & Johnson targeted Black women through “deceptive marketing” of its talc products.
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Johnson & Johnson was sued on allegations of marketing baby powder to Black women even though it knew the product could cause ovarian cancer.
The National Council of Negro Women filed the lawsuit Tuesday against the world’s largest maker of healthcare products for going after Black women through “deceptive marketing” that included handing out free samples of its talc-based powders at beauty parlors and running advertising campaigns.
“Internal documents demonstrate J&J targeted those advertisements to Black women, knowing that Black women were more likely to use the powder products and to use them regularly,” according to the complaint, which seeks a finding of liability, warnings and a medical monitoring program funded by the company. “We now know