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20 May 2020Johnson & Johnson has stopped the production of talc-based baby products in the United States and Canada: thousands of lawsuits have arisen on the product for the alleged asbestos contamination that led to a drop in sales. The company announced that it has stopped shipping hundreds of talc-based items to the United States and Canada after making the "commercial decision" to stop them. The American media write it.

J&J will stop sales in those markets in the coming months, said Kathleen Widmer, president of the company's North America Consumer Unit. All existing stocks will continue to be sold through resellers until exhaustion. J&J faced lawsuits in which she was accused of hiding cancer risks. Across the United States, first instance juries have sentenced the company for billions of dollars in actual and punitive damages for product manipulation. J&J managed to have many of these verdicts reduced or canceled on appeal. According to a New York Times survey, Johnson & Johnson executives had been aware of the risks of asbestos contamination for decades, but have always hidden the risks from consumers.