talc

Consumer-goods manufacturers, including Avon Products and Johnson & Johnson, have turned to bankruptcy court in recent years to deal with an avalanche of lawsuits alleging that cosmetic talc caused cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

J&J has repeatedly denied the allegations and in its latest announcement said: "Studies show talc is safe, does not contain asbestos and does not cause cancer."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

But kudos to Johnson & Johnson, which fought the tort bar and will likely settle talc lawsuits for billions of dollars less than it offered a few years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Tens of thousands of plaintiffs lined up to sue, though science hasn’t proven a causal link between talc products and cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Amid tins of talc and boxes of bobby pins she would curl up on the floor of the storage room, speaking in non sequiturs.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

After receiving inquiries from Reuters, the ACS in early December revised its website to remove the assurance that cosmetic talcs are free of asbestos.

From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2018

Food and Drug Administration was considering a limit on asbestos in talcs.

From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2018

Wide-shouldered, hairy-chested William Nassaur, whose Courtley, Ltd. shaving soaps, lotions, talcs, and bubble baths had already deodorized and sweetened thousands of U.S. males, got set last week to waft his perfume worldwide.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the three brothers took, each of them, a princess with him on his horse, and they all rode together back to the old King, telling talcs and singing songs as they went.

From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Dmitri Mitrokhin

"How can you ask that? What do you imagine I'm doing? I am talcing care of your brother. I am taking care of Bran."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin