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Sign up at lad Brooks live. Co. Witness Docks from Sticker. We were all taken into a big meeting and talked to about the Johnson baby powder cases that we were going to start hearing about.

Because they assumed that people in the general public are going to start calling in and saying,

hey, is your product safe?

You know, I'm hearing that all these women are getting cancer.

Should we be using your product?

Should we be using your product? Is it safe? That is the question at the heart of this series.

And the people responsible for answering it work for Johnson and Johnson and

and the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA. Now we know what J and J has to say about

it. Talk is pure, talc is safe, despite decades of tests finding some asbestos

fibers in their product. So if Jane J's answers are hard to trust, who do we look to? The FDA is supposed to protect us,

but as we'll see today, they've struggled to give us a consistent answer as well and they don't always have

the power to act. I'm Natasha del Toro and this is verified. Today we're going to look at what the FDA can and can't do when regulating cosmetic products.

We'll look at what happens when women try to raise their hands and say,

I think this talcum powder could be making me sick.

We'll walk through what happens when a researcher raises his hand and says,

hey, I found asbestos in these products on store shelves.

And then we'll look at why raising those hands doesn't trigger the response from the FDA that

you'd hope.

Now, I don't want you to get overwhelmed.

There are some wonky details here.

They're what make up the safety net. And one important piece of that net is meant to be

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