Dietrich Knaut

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Reuters World News · Japan quake, ICE children arrests and Johnson & Johnson talc deal · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, so this is a litigation that has gone on for more than 10 years.

So tens of thousands of women have accused Johnson & Johnson of causing their ovarian cancer.

They've alleged that talc-based products, including baby powder, have been contaminated with asbestos and caused them to develop cancer after using these products for a long period of time.

Johnson & Johnson has denied that, but these cases have...

continue to go to trial.

It's been a hard fought legal battle on both sides.

Earlier this year, Johnson & Johnson

essentially lost a ruling on the general causation idea.

So plaintiffs were allowed to put out evidence that says talc sometimes causes cancer.

But then last week, Johnson & Johnson won a ruling on the more specific evidence for each individual plaintiff.

So it became harder for plaintiffs to argue that talc caused their own cancer.

So it's sort of a

a nuanced ruling and people have disagreed about the impact of that, but that was something that might have scared some of the plaintiff's lawyers.

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