“Johnson & Johnson plans to remove trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing and other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and cosmetic products worldwide within 3 1/2 years.“
The socially responsible move would have been to defend the products, not yield to chemophobic pressure groups running fund-raisers by maligning harmless products. All you’ve done is gift them a cudgel with which to beat you and everyone else. Appeasement never works.
The health care giant late last year pledged to remove “chemicals of concern” from its baby products sold around the world. That change came after a large coalition of health and environmental groups began pressing J&J more than three years ago to make its personal care products safer.
The company told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday that it remains on track to have baby products, including its Johnson’s No More Tears baby shampoo, reformulated with safer ingredients by the end of 2013. Adult products will be reformulated by the end of 2015.
“We want people to have complete peace of mind when they use our products,” said Susan Nettesheim, vice president of product stewardship and toxicology for J&J’s consumer health brands.
We might be well served to recall that J&J was among the first to renounce the use of CFCs in its products following the ozone scare. Marketing is marketing. Science is science. Scareing is marketing. Marketing benefits financially the marketer, whether manufacturer or scientist.
Does that mean we can sue them now that they have admitted that these chemicals will be removed? Haven’t they left themselves open to litigation by cow-towing to the alarmists? Silly people.