FDA: Demand Johnson & Johnson Remove Their Talc-based Products Now!

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm Buffy Wicks, a MoveOn member in Washington, DC, and I started a petition to Dr. Norman Sharpless, FDA Commissioner, which says:

We call on the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately remove all talc-based consumer personal care products from circulation, in particular, Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder product.

The health of women and babies has been put in peril from undisclosed amounts of asbestos in the talc, which becomes embedded in human body tissues and can cause cancer. This is entirely preventable by simply eliminating talcum powder products from the market.

Johnson & Johnson has actively concealed the risk caused by asbestos in talc products for more than four decades. Due to lawsuits against the company, the extent of their knowledge and concealment has been revealed in court documents. When faced with internal criticism over the asbestos levels found in baby powder in the 1990s, consumer safety was ignored in favor of company profits.

Not only that, advertising campaigns from Johnson & Johnson demonstrate a blatant disregard for consumer safety with an intentional focus on women, women of color, and babies. This clearly violates the public’s right to know about health risks posed by products purchased at their local store.

Faced with the dangerous reality of talc products, other companies have opted to remove talcum powder from the market, or have switched to using safer alternatives such as cornstarch. In fact, many other brands that still carry talc-based products have chosen to display a warning label as required by the FDA.

We demand the FDA take action immediately and require Johnson & Johnson to remove all of their talc-based products from their product line.

The health of women and babies has been put in peril from undisclosed amounts of asbestos in the talc, which becomes embedded in human body tissues and can cause cancer. This is entirely preventable by simply eliminating talcum powder products from the market.

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Thanks!

—Buffy Wicks

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