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🗓️ 3 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:28.6 | Today, why cancer survivors are going to court over baby powder. I'm sorry. My earliest memory is very, very early. |
| 0:37.3 | I mean, I remember lying on a bed with my mum leaning over me and using baby powder on me, so I must have been a toddler. |
| 0:42.2 | It's one of those things which was there all my life. |
| 0:49.2 | Sue Razzello's memories of her childhood, like for many of us, include talcum powder. |
| 0:52.6 | It was just always there. |
| 0:55.8 | It was always called baby powder. |
| 1:03.7 | And because of that, it carried with it overtones of safety, of security, of kindness, |
| 1:06.3 | of gentleness and all of those wonderful things. |
| 1:15.2 | Soft, absorbent with that lovely, comforting smell. Ch chances are it's been in your life as well. |
| 1:20.5 | For almost 100 years, it's helped stop newborns getting nappy rash. |
| 1:26.7 | It's been shaken into swimming hats at local pools, patted onto skin after a warm bath. |
| 1:30.7 | A bottle of baby powder has been a comforting presence in bathroom cabinets around the world. When I was a child, there was only one baby powder, |
| 1:37.4 | and that was Johnson & Johnson's. |
| 1:39.7 | Steal a moment to baby yourself with soothing Johnson's baby powder. |
| 1:44.5 | Johnson and Johnson used images of mothers and babies. |
| 1:48.8 | It was all lovely in a cereal. |
| 1:51.4 | So it's very deeply embedded in the psyche that this was a gentle, safe product. |
| 1:57.5 | You know, it's good for your baby. |
| 1:58.8 | It's good for you. |
| 1:59.8 | From Johnson and Johnson. But decades. product, you know, is good for your baby, it's good for you. |
| 2:11.6 | But decades later, Sue now believes that inside that bottle, lurking in the soft white baby powder was something far more sinister. |
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