{"id":27034,"date":"2019-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/jj-says-no-asbestos-detected-in-new-tests-of-baby-powder\/"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:10:05","slug":"jj-says-no-asbestos-detected-in-new-tests-of-baby-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/jj-says-no-asbestos-detected-in-new-tests-of-baby-powder\/","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;J Says No Asbestos Detected in New Tests of Baby Powder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tests were performed by two third-party laboratories as part of the company&#8217;s ongoing investigation<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; No asbestos was detected in 15 new tests of the same bottle of Johnson &#038; Johnson&#8217;s Baby Powder previously found to contain asbestos by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that no asbestos was found in 48 new laboratory tests of samples from Johnson &#038; Johnson&#8217;s Baby Powder recalled earlier this month, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Johnson &#038; Johnson recalled 33,000 bottles of Baby Powder after the FDA found trace amounts of asbestos in a single bottle purchased online. The new tests &#8220;were conducted by two third-party laboratories as part of the company&#8217;s ongoing testing and investigation,&#8221; according to a Johnson &#038; Johnson news release.<\/p>\n<p>The company faces thousands of lawsuits from people claiming they developed cancer from asbestos in the talc-based powder. Johnson &#038; Johnson has maintained there is no science to support the alleged connection between its powder and cancer, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/johnson-johnson-baby-powder-no-asbestos-in-recalled-baby-powder-2019-10-29\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jnj.com\/15-new-tests-from-the-same-bottle-of-johnsons-baby-powder-previously-tested-by-fda-find-no-asbestos\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J&#038;J Press Release<\/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>Tests were performed by two third-party laboratories as part of the company&#8217;s ongoing investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-27034","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\/27034","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=27034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}