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Even according to your link it stopped almost 20 years ago (2000), and you ignored the second paragraph, so... ball’s in your court.
by chrismeller 7y ago
Even according to your link it stopped almost 20 years ago (2000), and you ignored the second paragraph, so... ball’s in your court.
- fzeroracer 7y agoNo, it didn't stop in 2000. To quote the article directly: >A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public. >A third verdict, in St. Louis, was a watershed, broadening J&J’s potential liability: The 22 plaintiffs were the first to succeed with a claim that asbestos-tainted Baby Powder and Shower to Shower talc, a longtime brand the company sold in 2012, caused ovarian cancer, which is much more common than mesothelioma. And to address your second paragraph directly: That is literally why laws and regulations exist. There will be companies that break them yes, and laws exist in order to ideally punish them for doing so. What you're essentially saying is that 'murders still happen even though there are laws against it, therefore laws are useless' but applied at a company scale.