talc
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She previously said her mother used baby powder on her as a baby, and Margaret continued to use the talc every day as an adult, as well as on her own children.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2024 after using talc for decades.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Johnson & Johnson has faced thousands of lawsuits linking its talc baby powder to cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Johnson & Johnson retained responsibility for talc litigation in the two countries after the spinoff, but Kenvue is responsible for talc litigation elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Some areas became hard as rock while others remained as soft as talc.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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 Mitrokhin, Dmitri
"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
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