{"id":26590,"date":"2019-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/johnson-johnson-recalls-baby-powder-due-to-presence-of-asbestos\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:10:04","slug":"johnson-johnson-recalls-baby-powder-due-to-presence-of-asbestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/18\/johnson-johnson-recalls-baby-powder-due-to-presence-of-asbestos\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &amp; Johnson Recalls Baby Powder Due to Presence of Asbestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>This is the first time Johnson &amp; Johnson has pulled its baby powder from the market<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A shipment of baby powder has been recalled by Johnson &#038; Johnson after U.S. authorities found asbestos in it.<\/p>\n<p>The recall comes after months of denial from the company about the presence of the cancer-causing substance in its talc-based products, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported Friday. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found trace levels of chrysotile asbestos in samples from a bottle of baby powder bought from an online retailer, according to Johnson &#038; Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The recalled lot of baby powder is #22318RB and includes 33,000 bottles sold by an unidentified retailer, said company spokesman Ernie Knewitz. He added that this is the first time Johnson &#038; Johnson has pulled its baby powder from the market, <i>The Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson &#038; Johnson is facing thousands of lawsuits from people who allege that baby powder and other talc-based products triggered cancer in them. Some of the plaintiffs have mesothelioma, while others have ovarian cancer, which has also been linked to asbestos, <i>The Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/18\/business\/johnson-johnson-baby-powder-recall.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time Johnson &amp; Johnson has pulled its baby powder from the market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-26590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}