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After decades of lawsuits and consumers claiming the talcum powder caused cancer, Johnson Johnson has decided to discontinue sales of their staple product.

According to the New York Times, on Tuesday (May 19) Johnson Johnson announced that they would discontinue sales of their iconic talc-based powder.

Even as it announced the withdrawal of its baby powder, the company said that it “will continue to vigorously defend the product” in court, before adding that decrease in consumer consumption.

As of late March of this year, Johnson Johnson faced more than 19,400 lawsuits related to talc body powders, many of them involving complicated science.

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