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2. Baby powder - Wikipedia

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   The company stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the United States and Canada in 2020 [11] and has said it will stop all talc sales worldwide by 2023, switching to a corn starch-based formula. However, Johnson & Johnson says that its talc-based baby powder does not contain asbestos and is safe to use. [12]

3. Talc - Wikipedia

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   Talcum powder The structure of talc is composed of Si 2 O 5 sheets with magnesium sandwiched between sheets in octahedral sites. Talc is used in many industries, including paper making, plastic, paint and coatings (e.g. for metal casting molds), rubber, food, electric cable, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and ceramics.

4. Starch - Wikipedia

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   In the printing industry, food grade starch [67] is used in the manufacture of anti-set-off spray powder used to separate printed sheets of paper to avoid wet ink being set off. For body powder, powdered corn starch is used as a substitute for talcum powder, and similarly in other health and beauty products.

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6. Study links talc use to ovarian cancer — a potential boon for ...

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   The new study asked women how often they used talc powder on their genitals from ages 10 to 13 and during the year before they enrolled in the study. NIH researchers followed up with surveys from ...

7. Thallium poisoning - Wikipedia

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   Oblivious to the danger of misusing an unidentified white powder from a military dump site, the conscripts added it to tobacco, and used it as a substitute for talcum powder on their feet. [ 33 ] In 2005, a 17 year-old girl in Izunokuni, Shizuoka, Japan admitted to attempting to murder her mother by lacing her tea with thallium, causing a ...

8. J&J to end global sales of talc-based baby powder - AOL

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   In 2020, J&J announced that it would stop selling its talc Baby Powder in the United States and Canada because demand had fallen in the wake of what it called "misinformation" about the product's ...

9. Anticaking agent - Wikipedia

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   The most widely used anticaking agents include the stearates of calcium and magnesium, silica and various silicates, talc, as well as flour and starch. Ferrocyanides are used for table salt. [1] The following anticaking agents are listed in order by their number in the Codex Alimentarius by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.