These very popular products had hidden, sometimes fatal, side effects
If you use this weed killer, baby powder or antibiotic, you could get cancer or commit suicide. These almost unbelievable, extreme side effects weren’t admitted for years. The products – Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and its antibiotic Levaquin, and Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup – were best sellers for these corporations. They also had other serious side effects. They were finally revealed when lawsuits made the companies compensate their victims.
The lawsuits paid victims of the three products millions of dollars
In 2018, a jury awarded $4.69 billion to 22 women with ovarian cancer who used Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder. In 2019, lung cancer victims of its baby powder won $29 million in a lawsuit. In 2010, a victim of Levaquin won $1.8 million from J&J. By 2012, there were 3,400 Levaquin lawsuits against J&J. In 2019, Monsanto paid $80 million to a Roundup victim.
The facts behind “corporate concealment”
Johnson & Johnson’s executives knew for years its baby powder might be contaminated with asbestos. It can exist underground near mines for talc. Asbestos causes cancer. One of J&J’s top executives wrote a memo in 1971 he feared the company’s baby powder might contain asbestos. Through the Freedom of Information Act, the Times obtained “hundreds” of similar Johnson & Johnson memos written over the years. It found the company had even “demanded the government block unfavorable finds from becoming public.”
In 2013, a suicide revealed Levaquin’s severe mental health side effects. A 24-year old college student jumped out of a second story window and crashed his car into a concrete embankment, killing himself. He was taking Levaquin to clear his body of any infection before minor surgery. It was five years before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put a warning on the antibiotic’s label that it could cause psychosis. It can also cause aortic aneurysms, ruptured tendons, seizures, permanent nerve damage, cardiac arrhythmia and renal failure. By 2012, there were 3,400 Levaquin lawsuits against J&J. In 2016, six plaintiffs filed an $800 million dollar lawsuit accusing Johnson & Johnson of hiding Levaquin’s dangers to increase profits.
Roundup’s safety became an international issue in 2015. National Geographic questioned it after The World Health Organization classified Roundup’s main ingredient – glyphosate – a “probable human carcinogen.” The classification means “there is limited evidence it can cause cancer but it’s not conclusive. In 2019, in an $80 million lawsuit against Monsanto filed by a California man with cancer who regularly used Roundup, testimony showed that Monsanto was hiding Roundup’s carcinogenic properties…so it would not have to warn customers. In May 2019, a couple in their 70s, who used Roundup on their property for years, won a $2 billion lawsuit against Monsanto. Both had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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