Louisiana Woman Says if Johnson & Johnson Had Warned About Cancer Dangers in Talc Products, She Never Would Have Used Them

BATON ROUGE, La. –– A Louisiana woman has filed a talcum powder exposure suit in federal court, the latest in a string of complaints against Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies.

In her July 1 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, plaintiff Elouise Anderson says that the defendants acted negligently, willfully and wrongfully in connection with the design, development, manufacture, testing, packaging, promoting, marketing, distributing, labeling and selling of the Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower products.

Anderson, born in 1952, said that she used the talc-based powder products for approximately …