Petition Seeking a Cancer Warning on Cosmetic Talc Powde... (icesadmitted in August 1993 that We are...)

Petition Seeking a Cancer Warning on Cosmetic Talc Powder Products

Date:5/19/2008

ices, admitted in August 1993 that "We are aware that there have been reports in the medical literature between frequent direct female perineal talc dusting over a protracted period of years, and an incremental increase in the statistical odds of subsequent development of certain ovarian cancers . . . (However) at the present time, the FDA is not considering to ban, restrict or require a warning statement on the label of talc containing products."

More reckless is the admission, in an August 12, 1992 New York Times article by Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer and retailer of talc dusting powder, that frequent genital dusting with talc increases risks of ovarian cancer by three-fold. This risk was belatedly admitted this year by the industry's Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association.

Finally, Senator Edward Kennedy, in a 1997 statement to the Senate, requested the FDA to place a cancer warning on the label of talc products, besides other products containing known carcinogens. Nevertheless, over a decade later this warning remains ignored.

Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.

Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition

Professor emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Chicago, Illinois

Past President, Rachel Carson Council, Inc.

epstein@uic.edu

http://www.preventcancer.com

312.996.2297

Endorsed by: Quentin Young, M.D., Chairman, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Chicago, Past President, American Public Health Association; Peter Orris, M.D., Professor and Chief of Service, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center; Rosalie Bertell, PhD, International Association for Humanitarian Medicine; and Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association.

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