J&J’s Own Expert, Working for FDA, Found Asbestos in Baby Powder

J&J’s Own Expert, Working for FDA, Found Asbestos in Baby Powder
A bottle of Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder is seen in a photo illustration taken in New York, February 24, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar/Illustration/File Photo
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Ever since Johnson & Johnson disclosed this month that a government test had turned up asbestos in its Baby Powder, the company has attacked the validity of the result.

On Tuesday, for example, J&J announced that other labs it hired ultimately found no asbestos in samples from the bottle tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or from the same production lot.