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I don't believe this is accurate. There are concerns that talc can be contaminated with asbestos, but (a) asbestos was largely removed from talc for sale in the

I don't believe this is accurate. There are concerns that talc can be contaminated with asbestos, but (a) asbestos was largely removed from talc for sale in the US in the mid 70s as your Wikipedia link points out (and additional info in the link below), (b) the concern with asbestos contamination is largely related to inhalation and lung cancer - I haven't even seen much in the form of hypotheses that it is a factor in ovarian cancer, and (c) given a and b the concern is largely with talc mining and the miners involved, not people who use talc-based baby powder. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/talcum-powder-and-cancer.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/talc...

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> he concern with asbestos contamination is largely related to inhalation and lung cancer - I haven't even seen much in the form of hypotheses that it is a factor in ovarian cancer Someone above linked to this: Asbestos Exposure and Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-analysis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791123000744 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379112...) which concludes: "This meta-analysis provides evidence of a significant association between asbestos exposure and ovarian cancer mortality." You might not be aware of any hypotheses that asbestos is a factor in ovarian cancer, but it seems others have for a very long time. In 2017 Germany considered ovarian cancer caused by asbestos to be an occupational disease. A link between talc and ovarian cancer was suggested back in the 1960s. Talc, as something that causes cancer, has been being researched for a very very long time.