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[+]: Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that the same baby powder bottle flagged by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month for having trace amounts of asbestos is clean, according to multiple media reports, in what is the latest attempt by the beleaguered medical device company to restore its public image after a voluntary baby powder recall and thousands of lawsuits.J&J also said an additional 48 tests from the rest of the recalled lot found no asbestos.
, but Steve Musser, the FDA’s deputy director for scientific operations, told Reuters that it stands by its initial finding. : FDA officials told Reuters that different test outcomes could have resulted from the fact that contaminants are not uniformly dispersed throughout the sample and that there is no standard test for asbestos in talcum powder.: J&J voluntarily recalled 33,000 bottles of baby powder earlier this month after the FDA said it found trace amounts of asbestos in one bottle.
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