On July 13, 2018, Johnson & Johnson was ordered by the court to pay 22 female plaintiffs $0.55 billion in compensatory damages and $4.14 billion in punitive damages. The reason is simply because the plaintiffs used the talcum powder produced by Johnson & Johnson. They accused Johnson & Johnson of knowing that its products contained asbestos since at least the 1970 s, but did not warn consumers. The total compensation faced by Johnson and Johnson this time is 4.69 billion US dollars, which is the highest compensation so far. Prior to this, Johnson & Johnson encountered thousands of litigation compensation cases. After this case, there are still about 9,000 cases waiting for Johnson & Johnson to respond, many of which are related to Johnson & Johnson's asbestos-containing talc products. Although talcum powder itself is not a definite carcinogen, it may cross-infect (I. e., accompany) the identified carcinogen "asbestos" during the production process. Later, it was true that a small amount of "asbestos" was sampled from several bottles of raw powder produced by Johnson & Johnson.

Let's take a look at the other hazards of asbestos:

1. The Great Wall "Asbestos Gate" Incident on August 15, 2012: The self-owned brands of Great Wall Automobile and Chery Automobile suffered a personal pain. The above-mentioned cars were found to contain trace amounts of carcinogenic asbestos in the engine and exhaust pipe gaskets, which violated local laws and regulations, and 24000 cars were recalled.

2. In early April 2009, among the South Korea 30 kinds of infant talcum powder made of talcum powder, 12 kinds of infant talcum powder, South Korea the products of famous infant products enterprises such as Baoning Pharmaceutical and Babyra, were found to contain asbestos, a first-class carcinogen, including the famous NUK baby talcum powder. NUK is a well-known infant brand in China and has a large market share. Immediately afterwards, some cosmetics were also involved in the "asbestos door": according to the South Korea Food and Medical Safety Department, five products such as foundation and blush produced by South Korea Cosmetics Company were found to use asbestos-containing talcum powder. The Food and Medical Safety Department has ordered Luxiang Company to stop selling these five cosmetics and recycle the sold products.

3. Italian Asbestos Company Caused 2000 Deaths of Lung Cancer: Since 1952, Etenet Building Materials Company has set up four factories in Italy, and the production of asbestos cement boards did not stop completely until the early 1990 s. Italy, which banned the use of asbestos in 1994, has long been one of the most important producers and consumers of asbestos in Europe. After 94 years, the company did not take corresponding safety measures against the factory when it knew that asbestos would cause harm to the human body, resulting in the death of more than 2000 factory employees, their relatives and people around the factory from lung cancer caused by inhalation of excessive asbestos fibers, and hundreds of others became sick. In Europe, it is predicted that 500000 people will die from lung cancer caused by asbestos pollution by 2020.

4, the French Cancer Research Forum has released a data showing that as an "occupational cancer", most lung cancers are related to people's past exposure to the environment decorated with asbestos materials. 12% of lung cancer patients over the age of 55 are related to asbestos.

5. During the Second World War, the United States hired workers to install asbestos insulators on new ships. Therefore, it was later discovered among patients that many of them were shipbuilding workers who were often in contact with asbestos at that time. There were about 400 people, even only in The workers who worked on the ship for 3 weeks suffered from mesothelioma 30 years later. The worker's family members also suffer from mesothelioma because of the indirect inhalation of asbestos.

In Germany, asbestos-related occupational diseases caused 12000 deaths between 1980 and 2003. Asbestos kills 2000 people a year in France.

Experts such as scientists and doctors around the world warn that hundreds of thousands of people in developing countries could die from inhaling asbestos dust in the next decade.

According to relevant research, asbestos itself is not toxic, and its greatest harm comes from its fibers, which are very small and almost invisible to the naked eye. When these small fibers are released, they can float in the air for a long time. If it is inhaled into the human body, it can be attached and deposited in the lungs for many years, and then through the activation of a variety of oncogenes and the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes, the regulation of cell proliferation is disordered and cell proliferation is promoted; in the process of cell proliferation, the chance of gene mutation is increased, so that the phenotype of target cells is changed, the cells become malignant, and finally develop into tumors, the common ones include lung cancer, mesothelioma-pleural or peritoneal cancer, asbestosis (scarring of the lungs due to fibrosis in the lungs, also called asbestosis), etc. Asbestos has been affirmed as a carcinogen by the International Cancer Research Center. Another risk factor is that asbestos-related disease symptoms tend to have a long incubation period, which may not appear until about 10 to 40 years after the human body is exposed to asbestos dust (lung cancer generally 15-20 years, mesothelioma 20-40 years), so patients tend to miss the best time for treatment. Asbestos has been affirmed as a carcinogen by the International Cancer Research Center. In the regulations of the Ministry of Health on the hygienic norms of cosmetics, asbestos is also listed as a prohibited substance in the ingredients of cosmetics.

For the automotive industry, because asbestos has good high temperature resistance and corrosion resistance, it is often used in automobile heat insulation, sealing and braking, that is, various heat insulation tiles, sealing gaskets and brake pads. Although more than 40 countries, including most EU countries, Japan, Australia, etc., have introduced regulations that prohibit or restrict the production and use of asbestos products, China, as one of the world's largest asbestos producers, has durable asbestos materials., The price is cheap, and it will not be completely banned in the short term. To avoid using products containing asbestos, you need to keep your eyes open at the material selection stage. According to industry experience, words such as "asbestos-free" and "non-asbestos" cannot completely guarantee that materials do not contain asbestos fibers. It is necessary to specially mark "100 asbestos-free" and "100 non-asbestos" and issue a certification report such as SGS non-asbestos. Only by selecting a regular company can the selected materials do not contain 100 asbestos fibers.

Our company produces green paper-making non-asbestos fiber sealing materials, which can be used in diesel engines, transmissions, refrigeration compressors, general gasoline engines, carburetors, wheels and other fields. The raw materials we purchase have strict control procedures. Each batch of raw materials will be sampled and tested after entering the factory. One of the tests is whether it contains asbestos fibers. Only by ensuring that it is 100 per cent free of asbestos fibers will we release the raw materials and put them into production so that our customers can use them with confidence.