India, May 23 -- Friday, a panel of medical experts convened by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration discussed about the association between talc use and ovarian cancer, urging the agency to study and adopt new standards to prohibit the use of talc in consumer products such as gum, candy, rice and pharmaceuticals.
This comes as the experts stated that talc is carcinogenic, based on findings of numerous studies conducted over 30 years. These findings had forced Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) to remove the company's body powders from the market in recent years.
Dr. George Tidmarsh, a pediatric neonatologist and professor at Stanford University. "In my opinion, it's not a matter of if talc should be removed from the U.S. market, it's a matter of how...