00:00 Johnson & Johnson's original baby powder has been used around the world for over 100 years.
00:05 Sales in the US were ended in 2020 over thousands of consumer safety lawsuits.
00:10 But in South Africa, it is readily available and still very popular.
00:14 I love the effect of the smell and I use the original one.
00:22 I actually have the original and the night time baby powder so I use it when I'm changing
00:29 a bum, when she comes out of the bath.
00:32 I use it for a baby's clothes and to let him smell good.
00:37 More than 60,000 people in the US claim the product was contaminated and caused them to
00:42 develop cancer.
00:43 Johnson & Johnson denies this and the controversy still is not well known in South Africa.
00:48 This professor has been trying for over 10 years to get the baby powder banned.
00:52 He says that the talc contains high levels of carcinogenic asbestos.
00:57 Ovarian cancers have been on the rise in South Africa.
00:59 There is more than sufficient scientific evidence that it causes cancer.
01:05 Not a possible or a maybe, it's definitely it.
01:09 Many of the claims were because the mothers used talc powder, Johnson & Johnson talc powder,
01:15 on the infant female babies.
01:18 And that's where their cancer eventually came from.
01:23 Because it can take years for that cancer to eventually establish.
01:30 J&J says that its talc based powder will be on sale in South Africa until supply runs
01:35 out.
01:36 It will then be replaced by a corn starch based alternative.
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