Attorneys Ben Crump and R. Allen Smith Call Linkage Between Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder And Ovarian Cancer a Civil Rights, Public Health Crisis

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BUSINESS INSIDER reported in January that Johnson & Johnson is currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission following concerns about the safety of the brands baby powder.

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  • BUSINESS INSIDER reported in January that Johnson & Johnson is currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission following concerns about the safety of the brands baby powder.
  • Crump and Smith said the clear exploitation of minority women is both a public health and civil rights outrage.
  • Litigation activities by Smiths team uncovered a Johnson & Johnson memo showing a clear strategy to market the baby powder to African-American and other minority women.
  • It turns out that Johnson & Johnson baby powder is no better than cigarettes, delivering multiple cancer-causing substances to innocent users, Smith said.


Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump
has partnered with Attorney R. Allen Smith and Janice L. Mathis, Esq.,
executive director of National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), to warn
women of color about evidence of a direct link between ovarian cancer
and the use of Johnson & Johnson baby powder. Attorneys Crump and Smith
are joining forces nationally to represent women harmed by their
unsuspecting use of the powder and urge those that believe they may have
been harmed by the common product to contact them immediately.

BUSINESS INSIDER reported
in January that Johnson & Johnson is currently under investigation by
the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission following concerns about the
safety of the brand’s baby powder. A Reuters report
in December said the company had been aware of traces of asbestos in
talc, which is often mined near the carcinogen asbestos.

Crump and Smith said the clear exploitation of minority women is both a
public health and civil rights outrage. Litigation activities by Smith’s
team uncovered a Johnson & Johnson memo showing a clear strategy to
market the baby powder to African-American and other minority women.

“We have to protect women of color,” Crump said. “Documents
from as far back as 1990 show that Johnson & Johnson preyed on women of
color by knowingly marketing this deadly powder to African-American
women, all the while possessing scientific reports that showed a linkage
between talcum powder and ovarian cancer.”

Smith, who is based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, is the nation’s
pre-eminent plaintiffs’ attorney in talc cases. He recently was retained
to represent his home state in seeking civil fines against Johnson &
Johnson.

“It turns out that Johnson & Johnson baby powder is no better than
cigarettes, delivering multiple cancer-causing substances to innocent
users,” Smith said. “Behind the mask of a harmless baby product, they
were marketing a product whose carcinogenic ingredients include forms of
talc, heavy metals, and asbestos.”

Attorneys Crump and Smith are scheduled to travel throughout the United
States to speak at conferences, with the mission of educating women
within minority communities about this issue. To contact Crump, please
call 844-638-1822 or fill out a free case evaluation form at https://www.bencrump.com/contact/.

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