Johnson & Johnson will have to pay 55 mln, talc accused

Blow to Johnson & Johnson, which will have to compensate the record sum of 55 million dollars to an American woman. A St. Louis court has in fact imposed on the American company a maxi-compensation against Gloria Ristesund, 62 year old of South Dakota which states that the use for years of talc-based products led her to develop an ovarian cancer .

It is not the first unfavorable verdict for J & J, after he was sentenced in February to pay $ 72 million to the family of an Alabama woman, Jackie Fox died following an ovarian cancer, who had sued claiming that illness, and death was caused by products containing talc. In addition the company is facing some 1,200 lawsuits on charges of failing to inform users about the risks linked to its talc-based products.

Through spokeswoman Carol Goodrich Johnson & Johnson said that would appeal to both decisions, in his opinion contrary to the results of decades of research supporting the safety of talc. The company said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified the talc as a risk factor for ovarian cancer.