Experts Agree: J&J Talcum Powder Causes Cancer

An expert witness recently made life a lot harder for Johnson & Johnson after he testified that the company's Talcum Powder also contains asbestos fibers. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Peter Mougey discuss this.

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J and J Baby Powder, they're on trial right now up in New Jersey on this case.

Right.

We find out now that it has asbestos in it. You had all these women that were dying from cervical cancer. Well, the asbestos inside is tremolite asbestos. A very, very potent kind of asbestos and that asbestos has the ability once it gets into your body, it migrates all through the body. They even find asbestos fibers in the brain all the way down in the leg. So, now you have these asbestos fibers migrating through the body. Women of course were putting it all over the body. It was moving up into the cervix and now people, these women are dying of cervical cancer. What's your take on this case man?

Well, you used to do these cases and [crosstalk 00:00:47] that's right and are only caused, you can only get mesothelioma ...

Only asbestos.

From asbestos.

Yeah.

So, you have people that have used J and J for their baby power.

From babies.

And all of a sudden have meso. What I thought was kind of disgusting is you have this expert that came on the stand this week and said, "Oh, yeah there's asbestos in J and J and baby powder," and during the case they're blaming it on, the defendants are blaming it on well, you might have been exposed to some school you went to and the whole time they knew what the studies date back to the 70s that show that they knew there was asbestos. They put a new name on it, which I guess if you don't list it in the ingredients, that it doesn't cause the problem.

Here, let me tell you this. The documents that I used in trial in the early days, Sumner Simpson documents. There are a half a dozen documents that you read, it's the OMG moments.

Right.

One of the documents says, "These people working around asbestos make a good living with asbestos. Let's let them die with asbestos." And then they kept it, that's was back in the 30s and then they kept it secret. This is the same deal. Johnson and Johnson was using talc mines. They were taking talc out of these mines contaminated with asbestos and they're trying to convince everybody, oh no. Well, here's the bad news Peter. They've actually take, they've actually visualized it with a microscopic kind of technology. They've actually seen the asbestos inside the powder itself and you still have J and J saying, "No. That's something different. We don't know what it is, but it's not asbestos."

It's the same defense firms again. Kirk and Alice who's defending J and J again. Bury it. Don't tell them what's out there. We're hire a big power defense firm and see what we can do to unwind it. It's cheaper to pay lawyers than it is from the profits from the wrong doing.