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The FDA helped Johnson & Johnson cover up that their baby powder caused cancer for 44 years, finally making a proposed ruling in 2024 After J&J faced over 62,000 lawsuits the finally changed their formula in 2020 “Johnson & Johnson baby powder, they go to the FDA, and they say, "We have to tell you something we're a little concerned about, we have found some cancer-causing asbestos in our baby powder, and we're acknowledging it and we wanna know what to do." And the FDA says, "Well, we're gonna study how much cancer-causing asbestos is okay in baby powder." So they study that for 44 years. And they, they never consider maybe zero, I mean, I had babies, I'd like zero cancer-causing asbestos in the baby powder. The FDA finally ruled on it in the year of 2024” The FDA has never set a “safe” threshold for asbestos in cosmetics On December 27, 2024, the FDA published a proposed rule (not yet final) in the Federal Register under the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act J&J stopped selling talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020 (shifting to cornstarch), citing lawsuits rather than admitting fault. Globally, they face ongoing claims.

New civil servants are welcome, but let’s also honor the 320,000 people who guided this city through Covid, the migrant wave, safety concerns, and an economic rebound. Progress starts with acknowledging those who carried us through the hardest moments. It’s called gratitude. Show it.

Got my COVID reinstatement decision back. I will not be accepting. Commanders can break the law and get promoted, but we have to fight to even COMPETE for a promotion to a rank we should already have. The terms they want me to accept? Reinstatement to O3 (I should be an O4 getting ready for my O5 board) with an opportunity to compete for O4 after I’m reinstated via SSB… 4 years behind my peers. Oh and in order to get backpay and come back 4 years behind my peers? I have to accept a 4 year service commitment with NO guarantee I’ll ever promote. But they’ve given me a “consolation prize” option to retire as an O3 if I do 20 years and don’t manage to promote. Break the law? promoted. Mental illness? Double separation pay. Do the right thing? they will make your life hell. Another humiliation ritual they want me to perform. Not just 4 years behind my peers but they want me to come back in a rank LOWER than people I have supervised 🤣. Seriously- people I’ve supervised are O4’s and they want me to come back as an O3 and hope that the SSB will promote me. Who would agree to this?! Do I recommend others go through this process? No; not if you’re going through the Air Force. And not if you have PTSD from all of this. I don’t think a single DAF person going through reinstatement has accepted the terms they’ve been offered. Because they are terms likely developed by a team (no one knows who is on) of people who had a hand in kicking us out or were apathetic. At least with the army and navy we know that the people on the team UNDERSTAND the abuse we went through- because they too went through it. Just more anxiety and PTSD. Went through a year of waiting for an answer and a MEPS humiliation ritual for nothing. Everyone who told me this would happen…congratulations, you were right.