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Exclusive: Sri Lanka halts imports of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder pending asbestos tests

A bottle of Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder is seen in a photo illustration taken in New York. [Photo: Reuters]

COLOMBO- Sri Lanka has halted imports of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder until the company proves its product is free from cancer-causing asbestos, two government officials and the product’s local distributor told Reuters.

Stocks of the product already in Sri Lanka can still be sold, but there will be no new imports of the talc, a popular healthcare product across Sri Lanka and much of Asia, until J&J India, from where Sri Lanka imports the product, provides fresh test results.

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