Starting next year, Johnson & Johnson will be pulling all of its talc-based baby powder from shelves in the UK.
This is part of a global canning of the product, with sales declining following tens of thousands of legal complaints. The product was claimed to have contained asbestos, which lawsuits say led to thousands of women developing ovarian cancer.
The claim made by the lawsuits is that talc is mined from the earth and can be found in seams close to asbestos, reports the Mirror. Johnson & Johnson stands by the independent research that claims their talc-based products are safe to use.
