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Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder bottles are being recalled in the US after asbestos was found contained within the powder.

So far 33,000 Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder bottles are being recalled by the company, the recall is completely voluntary.

The consumer goods giant, Johnson & Johnson, have recalled the Baby Powder product “out of an abundance of caution” after ‘sub-trace’ levels of chrysotile asbestos were found during testing conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The company issued a statement saying “Not only do we and our suppliers routinely test to ensure our talc does not contain asbestos, our talc has also been tested and confirmed to be asbestos-free by a range of independent laboratories, universities and global health authorities.”, though have still recalled the product.

The company are in the midst of over 14,200 lawsuits alleging their talc products cause cancer and so far have paid out over $4.7 billion dollars.

The news comes after Johnson & Johnson have been ordered to pay another large sum for ‘endangering the health of women across New York and the rest of America’ with their transvaginal surgical mesh devices:

There have been studies conducted by the Food and Drug Administration throughout 2009 and 2010 that have shown no asbestos to be found in the products.

There are currently no products affected by the recall in Australia.

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  • OMG, I’m clearing mine out, always had at least one at hand.

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  • Quite unsettling to see such a company involved in multiple settlements due to their actions and lack of customer care. Sad for the affected people who had to fight for this victory.

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  • That’s horrible from a well known brand too.

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  • I will never buy any Johnson and Johnson product ever again.

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  • Iam so shocked I will never use it

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  • A brand you want to avoid buying in the future!

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  • Sad to see an iconic brand fail so spectacularly.

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  • Seriously they should just stop making it!

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  • Shame on such a well known company.

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  • And they had such a great name in the past. Not safe now though

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  • I stopped buying their powder when the first law suit hit

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  • That’s terrible. What were they thinking. Putting little ones lives at risk. shocking.

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  • That is so scary to think that a product that we have loved and trusted, used on our precious little ones since day one, is actually containing some asbestos, a big concern.

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  • Oh wow I remember my Grandma using this all the time when I was a kid and she used a lot of it

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  • Oh my gosh this is frightening. I’m glad I never used it.

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