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<\/p>\nRecent health and safety information has arisen with regard to asbestos contamination of common talc baby powder products, including talc products sold by Johnson Johnson, and other talcum powder products still for sale throughout the United States.<\/p>\n
During 2016 and 2017, defective product personal injury litigation has given rise to allegations that Johnson Johnson, and other companies, have continued to sell talcum baby powder for decades adulterated by some percentage of asbestos or adulterated by what is called \u201casbestiform talc\u201d (i.e. a form of talc fibers highly similar in chemical composition to asbestos fibers). Additionally, pathology studies conducted on cancerous ovary tissue, in recent ovarian cancer\/talc personal injury litigation, has confirmed the presence of both talc and asbestos fibers in some tissue samples studied by specialists.<\/p>\n
In a deposition from December 2016, one chemist described having done testing in the 1970\u2019s of various Johnson Johnson baby powder products and having microscopically confirmed asbestos adulterating the baby powder in about 50 percent of the baby powder bottles that he tested. This was at a time that the FDA was considering regulating cosmetic talc products but J J and other consumer products companies selling cosmetic powders with talc assured the FDA that it had refined its mining methods to eliminate asbestos, and, in the end, the FDA never regulated the cosmetic talc powder products for asbestos in the United States. In other words, consumers since the 70s, buying talcum powder products, had to trust these companies not to be selling a product adulterated by asbestos. Keep in mind, asbestos was the first well known carcinogen regulated by OSHA because it is known to cause terminal mesothelioma cancers, as well as cancers to numerous tissues of the human body.<\/p>\n
Un gran n\u00famero de abogados est\u00e1n llevando a cabo casos en todo Estados Unidos alegando no s\u00f3lo que los c\u00e1nceres de ovario est\u00e1n causados por las fibras de talco en los productos de polvos de talco para beb\u00e9s, sino que se est\u00e1n presentando nuevas demandas alegando que muchos productos de polvos de talco siguen contaminados con amianto. Tambi\u00e9n se han presentado algunas demandas alegando que el mesotelioma pleural, los mesoteliomas peritoneales y varios otros tipos de c\u00e1ncer no s\u00f3lo est\u00e1n relacionados con los productos de talco para beb\u00e9s, sino que pueden haber sido causados por la adulteraci\u00f3n de las fibras de amianto o talco asbestiforme contenidas en estos productos de talco para beb\u00e9s de consumo com\u00fan.<\/p>\n
Johnson and Johnson, the leading retailer of talc baby powder, has steadfastly refused to put any warning on their talc baby powder products, whether the warnings advise of higher rates of cancer in general, of potential adulteration with asbestos, or even that talc has been associated with higher rates of ovarian cancers. After hearing the evidence in a number of court cases, juries have sided with the women suffering ovarian cancers in the majority of the trials over the last year. Juror interviews during 2017 indicated that many were appalled that J J resisted placing any warnings on the talc baby powder products, based on the totality of the evidence.<\/p>\n
The government was seriously considering regulating talc in cosmetic powders since there was solid evidence asbestos was in these products. The industry needed to tamp down the call for regulations and had to convince regulators that they would remove all the adulteration with asbestos. But how? The talc industry decided to provide the regulators with testing that they conducted (without direct government oversight) to show virtually no asbestos was in their current baby powder talc products. Just how serious were the regulators in the 70s? Read the two memos below, shown in pertinent excerpts:<\/p>\n
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Caption: FDA 1976 memos.<\/p>\n
Yes, the FDA was ready to regulate but then the talc industry, including J J, Colgate, Chesebrough-Ponds, and others, provided various tests by private consultants, to show that the asbestos adulteration was virtually nil or zero.<\/strong><\/p>\n Why do whistleblowers step forward? What motivates them? Is it simply the desire to reveal the truth? What if there is no compensation? A whistleblower came forward n December 2016 in one of the pending J J ovarian cancer baby powder cases pending in St. Louis, Missouri. He was working on his Ph.D. under a then-noted chemist who was hired by the talc industry to test their products in the 1970s. This young chemist, Aviam Elkies planned to study under the New York chemist, Dr. Lewin, and his role was to test the J J baby powder products for the presence of asbestos fibers.<\/p>\n Elkies never finished his Ph.D. under Dr. Lewin when the study funding was cancelled by J J. He later moved to Israel where he taught chemistry for many years, but he never forgot what happened when he worked on this aborted project. When he heard about allegations of asbestos in J J talcum baby powder in the international press, he contacted one of the plaintiff\u2019s lawyers mentioned in the news article.<\/p>\n Rodeado de abogados demandantes de responsabilidad por productos defectuosos y de abogados de minas de talco y minoristas de polvos de talco para beb\u00e9s, prest\u00f3 el 15 de diciembre de 2016 el testimonio jurado que se extracta a continuaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n P: Y, Sr. Elkies, \u00bfha... ha vivido alguna vez en los Estados Unidos P: De acuerdo. P:Antes de vivir en Nueva York durante unos 10 a\u00f1os... bueno, volvamos atr\u00e1s. \u00bfD\u00f3nde naci\u00f3? P: \u00bfY en qu\u00e9 a\u00f1o fue eso? No quiero envejecerle. P: Bien. \u00bfNo obtuvo el doctorado? P: \u00bfAs\u00ed que aproximadamente en 1980 regres\u00f3 a Israel? Q: Do you know how many \u2014 approximately the total number of samples that Johnson Johnson sent you of talc to be tested? Q: Could you say what percentage of the samples, of the total number that you were testing for Johnson Johnson\u2019s, found asbestos? P: \u00bfSe complet\u00f3 alguna vez este estudio? P: Y d\u00edgale al jurado por qu\u00e9. P: \u00bfSe complet\u00f3 alguna vez el estudio?<\/strong> Q: To your knowledge, were the findings that you initially found regarding this Johnson Johnson scholarship ever published?<\/strong> P: \u00bfC\u00f3mo has llegado hasta m\u00ed? Hay cientos de p\u00e1ginas de testimonios adicionales en los que los abogados de la industria del talco intentaron desacreditar a este valiente denunciante. Pero la cuesti\u00f3n era irrefutable: la industria ocult\u00f3 los estudios que demostraban la adulteraci\u00f3n del amianto en los polvos de talco para beb\u00e9s.<\/p>\n Los abogados de las mujeres que padecen c\u00e1ncer de ovario o han fallecido a causa de \u00e9l est\u00e1n estudiando si las fibras finas de talco causan por s\u00ed solas las tasas m\u00e1s elevadas de c\u00e1ncer de ovario, o si la combinaci\u00f3n de fibras de talco y amianto causa a la vez las tasas m\u00e1s elevadas de c\u00e1ncer.<\/p>\n Because talc and asbestos are both silicates formed by similar geological conditions, they often form in similar geographical locations in the Earth. In the proper geological conditions, talc can (over millions of years) change into asbestos, and asbestos can change into talc. Viewed under a microscope, there are fibers also known as asbestiform talc, which chemists distinguish only by the microscopic width and length of the fibers. In the Earth, talc and asbestos are often mined near to each other, as they form in similar mine veins. Geologists and mineralogists have studied and known about the similarity in talc and asbestos for over a century. The microscopic structure of asbestos and talc is shown below.<\/p>\n Pie de foto: A la izquierda, diversas formas de fibras de amianto; a la derecha, una cinta de talco junto a un haz de amianto.<\/p>\n En un estudio Durante 2015, los cient\u00edficos confirmaron que decenas y decenas de envases de polvos de talco Cashmere Bouquet estaban adulterados con amianto.<\/a> The product had been sold for decades but Colgate sold off the brand in 1995. Why? Perhaps it was not a successful product, perhaps Colgate was concerned about asbestos adulteration liability. Colgate can still be held liable for an adulterated talc powder which was laced with asbestos when it sold the product, and indeed Colgate perdi\u00f3 en 2016 una demanda por mesotelioma interpuesta por una usuaria de polvos de talco durante mucho tiempo (este c\u00e1ncer terminal tiene un periodo de latencia de 10 a 50 a\u00f1os).<\/a><\/p>\n Imagine una pel\u00edcula de suspense de Hollywood en la que el villano ha adulterado a sabiendas un producto de consumo muy com\u00fan con carcin\u00f3genos venenosos conocidos por causar innumerables c\u00e1nceres, y que estos horribles c\u00e1nceres pueden surgir a\u00f1os o d\u00e9cadas despu\u00e9s, causando decenas de miles de muertes.<\/p>\n Imaginemos que el villano adultera lo que se considera uno de los productos de consumo m\u00e1s seguros imaginables, que se ha vendido sin advertencias en Estados Unidos durante m\u00e1s de 100 a\u00f1os, siendo ese producto el talco para beb\u00e9s.<\/p>\n Imaginemos entonces que en el \u00faltimo acto de la pel\u00edcula se desenmascara al villano, y el p\u00fablico exige un castigo r\u00e1pido y proporcionado para \u00e9l.<\/p>\n Ahora imagine que el villano resulta ser una de las empresas de productos de consumo m\u00e1s fiables.<\/p>\n Would keeping this secret from the public and from government regulators be considered the crime of the century? Perhaps not, because it may or may not be a criminal act, but it could be a significant fraudulent act, a material concealment, a massive civil wrong tied to countless thousands of cancers and deaths stretching over decades.<\/p>\n Whether this alleged concealment by the talc industry is the fraud of the century will continue playing out in the state and federal civil courtrooms of the United States over months and years. Who knew what and when? Have thousands of women died for decades from (supposedly safe) talc baby powder? Stay tuned.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recent health and safety information has arisen with regard to asbestos contamination of common talc baby powder products, including talc products sold by Johnson Johnson, and other talcum powder products still for sale throughout the United States. During 2016 and 2017, defective product personal injury litigation has given rise to allegations that Johnson Johnson, and … <\/p>\nEntonces apareci\u00f3 un denunciante<\/h4>\n
Testimonio de AVIAM ELKIES<\/strong>
\nA: At the moment, I live in Israel.Q: Okay. What city in Israel?
\nA: Herzliya (fon\u00e9tico).<\/p>\n
\nR: S\u00ed. Viv\u00ed 10 a\u00f1os entre 1970 y 1980.<\/p>\n
\nR: Viv\u00ed diez a\u00f1os en Nueva York.<\/p>\n
\nR: En Israel.<\/p>\n
\nA: 1944. I did my first degree in Israel, bachelor of science in chemistry. When I came to America, I made my master’s degree at CUNY University of New York. Then I wanted to do my Ph.D., and I was enrolled and registered and worked at NYU. And over there, it was the end of that, because I didn\u2019t get my degree.<\/p>\n
\nR: As\u00ed es.<\/p>\n
\nR: Israel. As\u00ed es.<\/p>\n
\nR: No me acuerdo. Fueron docenas, pero no me acuerdo.<\/p>\n
\nR: M\u00e1s del 50%.<\/p>\n
\nR: No.<\/p>\n
\nR: Un d\u00eda el profesor Lewin me dijo que quer\u00eda toda la documentaci\u00f3n para comprobarla. Y despu\u00e9s de que \u00e9l tom\u00f3 todo el papeleo, los pocos d\u00edas m\u00e1s tarde, me dijo
\nthat the scholarship was stopped by Johnson Johnson and there was no more.<\/p>\n
\nR: No, no estaba terminado, porque un d\u00eda el profesor Lewin me dijo: \"D\u00e9jame ver todos los papeles que has recogido\". Se llev\u00f3 los papeles. Y unos d\u00edas despu\u00e9s, me dijo que la beca se hab\u00eda suspendido y que no hab\u00eda m\u00e1s investigaci\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nR: Por lo que yo s\u00e9, no. Porque si lo hubiera sido, mi nombre deber\u00eda haber estado en \u00e9l.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nR: Un d\u00eda le\u00ed en el peri\u00f3dico que hab\u00eda un caso contra una mujer en alg\u00fan lugar de Estados Unidos, no recuerdo el lugar, y que hab\u00eda ganado el caso por c\u00e1ncer en los ovarios, en sus ovarios, a causa del amianto. Busqu\u00e9 en Google, y encontr\u00e9 al abogado Jim Onder, en alg\u00fan lugar de Texas, si mal no recuerdo. Y lo llam\u00e9, y le digo, Mira, yo era un estudiante aqu\u00ed y all\u00e1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nLa estructura mineral del talco es similar a la del amianto<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n\u00bfEl crimen del siglo o el fraude del siglo?<\/h4>\n