talc
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L’Oréal has engaged restructuring advisers to explore options for mounting U.S. legal liabilities stemming from its use of talc and other chemicals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Tens of thousands of plaintiffs lined up to sue, though science hasn’t proven a causal link between talc products and cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $5.5 billion to resolve outstanding lawsuits alleging its talc products caused ovarian cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
She previously said her mother used baby powder on her as a baby, and Margaret continued to use the talc every day as an adult, as well as on her own children.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Amid tins of talc and boxes of bobby pins she would curl up on the floor of the storage room, speaking in non sequiturs.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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After receiving inquiries from Reuters, the ACS in early December revised its website to remove the assurance that cosmetic talcs are free of asbestos.
From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2018
Food and Drug Administration was considering a limit on asbestos in talcs.
From Reuters ● Dec. 14, 2018
Wide-shouldered, hairy-chested William Nassaur, whose Courtley, Ltd. shaving soaps, lotions, talcs, and bubble baths had already deodorized and sweetened thousands of U.S. males, got set last week to waft his perfume worldwide.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then the three brothers took, each of them, a princess with him on his horse, and they all rode together back to the old King, telling talcs and singing songs as they went.
From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Dmitri Mitrokhin
"How can you ask that? What do you imagine I'm doing? I am talcing care of your brother. I am taking care of Bran."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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