{"id":34853,"date":"2020-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/20\/sales-of-johnsons-baby-powder-halted-in-u-s-canada\/"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T16:10:07","slug":"sales-of-johnsons-baby-powder-halted-in-u-s-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/20\/sales-of-johnsons-baby-powder-halted-in-u-s-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales of Johnson&#8217;s Baby Powder Halted in U.S., Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Johnson &amp; Johnson says talc-based powder is safe and will still be sold in other countries<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, May 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Lawsuits claiming that talc-based Johnson&#8217;s Baby Powder has caused cancer have led to a plunge in sales in the United States and Canada, so Johnson &#038; Johnson said Tuesday it is ending sales of the product in those two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the talc-based powder is safe and will still be sold in other countries, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>About 19,400 lawsuits alleging that J&#038;J&#8217;s talcum powder caused ovarian cancer or mesothelioma have been launched against the company.<\/p>\n<p>To date, J&#038;J has won 12 cases and lost 15, and there have been seven mistrials. All of the lost cases have either been overturned on appeal or are still being appealed, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/84363e7328a4ebd49fb258b09fcbc3ce\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson &amp; Johnson says talc-based powder is safe and will still be sold in other countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-34853","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\/34853","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=34853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}