INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
product, the company said on Thursday."Johnson Johnson has resumed production of its Johnson's Baby Powder at plants in Baddi and Mulund,
after government sanctioned testing reaffirmed that the product does not contain asbestos," JJ said in a statement to Reuters.Reuters
reported earlier on Thursday that the regulator had not found any asbestos in the company's talc, citing sources familiar with the
matter.The regulator and its counterparts in states launched an investigation into JJ's Baby Powder following a Reuters report in December
that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.JJ has described the Reuters article as
"one-sided, false and inflammatory".The regulator wrote to the US company in December asking it to stop using the "huge quantities" of raw
materials stocked in its plants in northern and western India until test results proved they were free of asbestos."In recent months,
regulatory authorities from Singapore, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, and Egypt have also reaffirmed the purity of Johnson
Johnson's talc," JJ said.
