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Key Topic
Talc has over 100 years of safe use in personal care products. Learn more

(Link to Ingredient Policies page, insert new item under ?Other Materials? and after ?Triclosan?, copy to
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Talc

The Use of Cosmetic Talc in Personal Care Products

Few ingredients have demonstrated the same performance, mild ness and safety profile as
cosmetic talc, which has been used for over 100 (I don?t think we can link cosmetic talc to 100
years of use) years by millions of people around the world. Talcum powder is made from the
mineral, talc. In a powder form, talc helps reduce friction, making it useful for keeping skin dry
and helping to prevent rashes. Talc is a common ingredient found in cosmetic products such as
baby powder and adult body and facial powders, and in a range of other consumer products
such as toothpaste, chewing gum, and aspirin.

talc products are made using U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) grade talc to ensure it
meets the highest-quality, purity and compliance standards. Our talc-based consumer products
?have-a-lway-s-bee-nlwe cannot say ?always?) asbestos free, as confirmed by regular testing
conducted since the 19705. We also make Baby Powder that contains cornstarch.

Our Position on Talc

At the Johnson Johnson Family of Consumer Companies, our confidence in the using talc is
based on a long history of safe use and more than 30 years of research by independent
researchers, scientific review boards and global regulatory authorities. Various agencies and
governmental bodies have examined whether talc is a carcinogen, and none have concluded
that it is. These include the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Toxicology
Program, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. California does not list
cosmetic talc as a carcinogen under its Prop 65 list of substances identified as possible causes of
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The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) is an independent scientific body that assesses the safety
of ingredients and publishes results in peer-reviewed science journals. In April 2013 it
published its most recent assessment of talc used in cosmetics. Its Expert Panel reviewed all
information, data, studies spanning from 1976 through today, and concluded that talc was safe
for use in personal care products. The U.S. FDA considers the CIR review, as well as other
information, in policy making.

Various independent researchers have studied talc and perineal use and found it to be safe. A
detailed meta-analysis done by Muscat/Huncharek in 2007, reviewed all available studies and
showed no cause and effect relationship between perineal use and ovarian cancer. In 2011,
Neill et al also was not able to find any association between perineal talc use and ovarian
cancer. Publications based on the Nurses? Health Study, the only large-scale prospective study
looking at talc and ovarian cancer, have found no causal relationship between talc and ovarian
cancer (Gertig 2000; Gates 2009).

References and Resources:

NOTE TO Y: Besides those below, there are other links to consider, but they are not as
definitive or supportive and could be interpreted as suggesting a causal effect, such as the American
Cancer Society and IARC. Even some of the studies we cite send mixed messages. For example, Gertig
et al concludes:

"Our results provide little support for any substantial association between perineal talc use and ovarian
cancer risk overall; however, perineal talc use may modestly increase the risk of invasive serous ovarian
cancers.?

National Toxicology Program


Cosmetic Ingredient Review
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Gertig, Prospective Study of Talc Use and Ovarian Cancer, Journal ofthe National Cancer Institute


 

Neill, Use of talcum powder and endometrial cancer risk, Cancer Causes and Control


 

Muscat, Perineal talc use and ovarian cancer risk: a case study of scientific standards in environmental
epidemiology, European Journal of Cancer Prevention



 

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FDA sponsored a workshop in 1994 Talc workshop?). Idon?t have a copy of the report but
there are many references to the conclusions, such as those below. Experts agreed that there was no
evidence to conclude that talc is capable of reaching the ovaries. And the experts attending the
Talc workshop concluded that the epidemiology studies did not demonstrate a real
association between talc and ovarian cancer.




 

 

 

 



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