The dusts talc of the company Johnson & Johnson will leave to be on sale from 2023. The multinational has communicated this decision through a press release that published does scarce two weeks, although it keeps that his products are totally insurances in spite of the 38.000 demands that accumulates by part of the users that report that it supposes a present risk for the health of the babies. These complaints by part of the consumers have to see with the use asbestos, and is that this variety of the asbestos, is related with the possibility to suffer a cancer of lung, like this explained it in 2015 the American Cancer Society through a study that confirmed that one of the possibilities was the pollution of products with fibres of asbestos.
The company already deleted this product of the market in United States and in Canada 3 years ago because the regulators of Administration of Drugs and Foods of U.S., in 2020, found small quantities of asbestos in the product. Besides, in 2017, a court of Los Angeles, condemned to the multinational to pay 417 million dollars because it showed that it was manager of a cancer of terminal ovary in a woman of 63 years, as it publishes in El País.
Still prpers having accessed (and after losing the legal battle in the courts), from the company ensure that it does not suppose any risk for the health of the smallest, although they inform through his press release that have the intention to employ starch of corn instead of talc in this line of products of childish hygiene. "The dusts for baby to base of cornflour already sell in countries of all the world. They are an emblematic global mark of J&J (…) Ours position on the security of our cosmetic talc remains unchanged. We back firmly the decades of independent scientific analysis made by medical experts of all the world that confirm that the talc is safe, does not contain asbestos and does not cause cancer" explains in the communique of the company.