J&J to re­move talc prod­ucts from shelves world­wide, re­plac­ing with corn­starch-based port­fo­lio

Af­ter con­tro­ver­sial­ly spin­ning out its talc li­a­bil­i­ties and fil­ing for bank­rupt­cy in an at­tempt to set­tle 38,000 law­suits, John­son & John­son is now chang­ing up the for­mu­la for its ba­by pow­der prod­ucts.

J&J is be­gin­ning the tran­si­tion to an all corn­starch-based ba­by pow­der port­fo­lio, the phar­ma gi­ant an­nounced on Thurs­day — just months af­ter a fed­er­al judge ruled in fa­vor of its “Texas two-step” bank­rupt­cy to set­tle al­le­ga­tions that its talc prod­ucts con­tained as­bestos and caused can­cer. An ap­peals court has since agreed to re­vis­it that case.

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