India, Oct. 21 -- The multinational corporation says it will conduct an investigation parallel to the one being conducted by US FDA

Johnson and Johnson (J&J) recalled 33,000 bottles of one lot of its talcum powder supplied in the United States (US) on October 18, 2019 (local time), as asbestos was found in it.

The US Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) said in an alert that it had so far tested 50 cosmetic products from 2018 and out of them, two lots of J&J baby powder were tested. One of these two lots (#22318RB) tested positive while the other lot (#00918RA) was found to be negative for asbestos.

The FDA said that consumers having the bottles of this particular lot should immediately stop using it since asbestos is cancer-causing....