- We have made a business decision to transition to a portfolio of cornstarch-based baby powders.
- This is how the new strategy was unveiled. Johnson & Johnson on the global sale of traditional baby powder alleged to contain asbestos.
- Johnson & Johnson ensures that their tests show that their product is safe.
The annual income of Johnson & Johnson within the child care sector they have been in decline since 2011. Only in 2021 did it rebound a little, since with 1,565 million dollars in billing, it advanced 50 million compared to 2020, but it was the year of the pandemic.
If you compare 2021 with 2011, the drop in income from the sale of Johnson & Johnson within the global market for baby care products was of 33 percent.
This explains, in part, the latest decision of the American company: Johnson & Johnson will stop selling baby powder worldwide.
The measure will take effect from 2023, the company said in a statement.
The pharmaceutical company had stopped selling that product in 2020 in the United States after receiving thousands of lawsuits related to alleged health problems in its consumers.
“As part of a worldwide product portfolio evaluation, we have made the business decision to transition to a portfolio of cornstarch-based baby powders,” says part of the text that was released to the media. this Friday, August 12,
It is also explained that cornstarch-based baby powder is already marketed in several countries around the world.
Two years after in the US, Johnson & Johnson abandons the traditional baby powder market
In the year 2020, Johnson & Johnson said it was going to stop marketing its children’s talcum powder in the US and Canada because consumption had receded because it “called misinformation” (so it explained) related to product safety and in a context thousands of lawsuits.
Indeed, the firm has long supported 38 thousand consumer submissions who argue that J&J’s baby powder caused cancer because it contains asbestos.
J&J he says that this is not correct and that he has presented evidence to the contrary. It also ensures that you have all regulatory approvals.
An investigation of Reuters of the year 2018 revealed that Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos, a carcinogen, was part of the content of its talcum powder.
Internal company records and trial testimony showed that, from at least the early 1970s through the early 2000s, talc from Johnson & Johnson tested positive for asbestos.
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