Talcum Powder PSC Sends Letter to MDL Judge Highlighting Recent IARC, FDA Developments

TRENTON, N.J. –– The Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee has sent the court overseeing the talcum powder MDL docket a letter pointing to a recent developments from the International Agency for the Research on Cancer and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to investigating a possible link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer.

In a letter sent Feb. 11 to Hon. Freda L. Wolfson of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee stated its intent was to provide the court with additional scientific materials that support plaintiff general causation experts’ opinions that talcum …