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J&J's own expert, working for FDA, found asbestos in Baby Powder [View all]
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS OCTOBER 30, 2019 / 6:04 AM / UPDATED 32 MINUTES AGO
Exclusive: J&J's own expert, working for FDA, found asbestos in Baby Powder
Chad Terhune, Lisa Girion
10 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Ever since Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) disclosed this month that a government test had turned up asbestos in its Baby Powder, the company has attacked the validity of the result.
On Tuesday, for example, J&J announced that other labs it hired ultimately found no asbestos in samples from the bottle tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or from the same production lot.
In challenging the FDA’s finding, however, the healthcare giant is casting doubt on one of its own experts.
The private Maryland lab that found asbestos in Baby Powder under a contract with the FDA is run by a paid expert witness for J&J.
Andreas Saldivar, laboratory director of AMA Analytical Services Inc, has served as a litigation expert on several occasions for J&J since 2017 in its defense against plaintiffs’ claims that asbestos in talc caused their cancers.
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Exclusive: J&J's own expert, working for FDA, found asbestos in Baby Powder
Chad Terhune, Lisa Girion
10 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Ever since Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) disclosed this month that a government test had turned up asbestos in its Baby Powder, the company has attacked the validity of the result.
On Tuesday, for example, J&J announced that other labs it hired ultimately found no asbestos in samples from the bottle tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or from the same production lot.
In challenging the FDA’s finding, however, the healthcare giant is casting doubt on one of its own experts.
The private Maryland lab that found asbestos in Baby Powder under a contract with the FDA is run by a paid expert witness for J&J.
Andreas Saldivar, laboratory director of AMA Analytical Services Inc, has served as a litigation expert on several occasions for J&J since 2017 in its defense against plaintiffs’ claims that asbestos in talc caused their cancers.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-health-j-j-expert-exclusive/exclusive-jjs-own-expert-working-for-fda-found-asbestos-in-baby-powder-idUSKBN1X912O
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