Johnson & Johnson and Its Baby Powder Scandal

J&J AND BABY POWDER PROBLEM
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Despite Johnson & Johnson (J&J) being renowned for many years for manufacturing, marketing, and selling babies and mothers products it sometimes faced negative critics for providing commodities that were not safe for its consumers. Indeed, it appears that J&J got used to giving more excuses related to unsafe products and forgot to solve the arising quality-related issues. In 2016, issues escalated for J&J as its talc powder products were associated with ovarian cancer. The company knew that its talc powder products were associated with ovarian cancer but refused to warn its consumers, which was unethical, immoral, and wrong. Through the lenses of deontological, ethical relativism, and teleological, the individual will critically evaluate the ethical issues presented in “Johnson & Johnson and Its Baby Powder Problem” by Barnali Chakraborty.
J&J forgot its moral duties and setting appropriate rules to regulate them. The company was aware that Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower powder products contained talc, which was linked to ovarian cancer in women. The firm should have acted fast to address this problem since it had direct health risks to consumers of talc powder products, particularly women. J&J behaved as though the issue does not exist, hence putting its customers at a high risk of contracting ovarian cancer. By not solving the problem, J&J did something that made it incur more financial losses through the money it used to settle the high number of lawsuits in 2016. Kantian principles show that human rights should be acknowledge and that they are inviolable. J&J was violating its consumers’ rights of health safety. The talc powder products made some clients to suffer and others to die. J&J should have been responsible for its actions and do what is best and morally right to solve the issue at hand.
J&J’s incident involved various stakeholders, including medical researchers, leaders, consumers, regulators, and the legal community. Medical researchers conducted scientific experiments to evaluate the link between ovarian cancer and talc. The first time that talc was associated with ovarian cancer was in 1971. In 1982, Dr. Daniel Cramer conducted an experiment that depicted the relationship between ovarian cancer and talc powder and even named talc “human carcinogen”. Numerous researches followed that did not oppose Cramer’s findings. J&J’s leadership team ignored these allegations and gave positive statements about the safety of the company’s iconic commodities, talc powder