Global
Talc Mining Market Report 2019 provides the strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global
talc mining market.
The Suomussalmi
talc project was launched in 2017 and its studies and the JORC report are expected to be completed in August 2019.
Measurements of retail
talc products have found amphibole asbestos contamination of those products;
J&J said it stood by the safety of its
talc and would continue to vigorously defend the safety of baby powder.
"Yet another jury has rejected J&J's misleading claims that its
talc was free of asbestos," said Moshe Maimon, a lawyer for Leavitt, in a statement on Wednesday.
Recently, Imerys
Talc America, a supplier of
talc for Johnson & Johnson filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
In recent years, however, the company has also begun to manufacture an alternative version of the powder that does not contain
talc and contains only cornstarch.
Women awarded $4.69 billion in Johnson & Johnson
talc cancer case
The agency said the papers show that from the 70s to the early 2000s, its raw
talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos.
There are currently 9,000
talc cases against Johnson & Johnson, but the company denies that its products ever contained asbestos or caused cancer.