CVS removes some Johnson & Johnson baby powder from stores amid asbestos-linked recall
- CVS Health is removing 22-ounce bottles of Johnson & Johnson baby powder from stores after a recall, the company said Thursday.
- "CVS Pharmacy is complying with Johnson & Johnson's voluntary recall of Johnson's Baby Powder 22 oz. and we removed this product from all stores and from CVS.com," a CVS spokesperson told Business Insider. "We also initiated a 'Do Not Sell' register prompt in our stores to prevent the sale of this item during the product removal process."
- Johnson & Johnson issued a recall of 33,000 bottles of its baby powder last week after testing found trace amounts of asbestos in a single bottle. Johnson & Johnson has said that its baby powder is safe.
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CVS Health is removing 22-ounce bottles of Johnson & Johnson baby powder from stores following a recall.
"CVS Pharmacy is complying with Johnson & Johnson's voluntary recall of Johnson's Baby Powder 22 oz. and we removed this product from all stores and from CVS.com," a CVS spokesperson told Business Insider. "We also initiated a 'Do Not Sell' register prompt in our stores to prevent the sale of this item during the product removal process."
Johnson & Johnson issued a recall last week of about 33,000 bottles of baby powder after testing by US health officials found trace amounts of asbestos, a carcinogen, in a single bottle.
Johnson & Johnson said it was issuing the recall out of an abundance of caution, and that independent testing has shown that the product is free of asbestos.
"Thousands of tests over the past 40 years repeatedly confirm that our consumer talc products do not contain asbestos," the company said in a statement last week.
A J&J spokesperson told Reuters that the CVS recall is temporary.
"It's temporary - in response to the recall we announced last week and it's limited to the 22 oz bottles," J&J spokesperson Ernie Knewitz told Reuters. "They are doing it store-wide because they don't have the resources to go through at the store level and check all the SKUs, check all the lot numbers ... The other baby powder sizes will remain on the shelves."