Johnson & Johnson removing
dangerous chemicals from products by 2015
Mariya Karimjee
August 15, 2012 11:17
Almost every single Johnson
& Johnson product will be sold free of dangerous chemicals by
2015.
Johnson & Johnson, who had already
promised to remove "chemicals of concern" from their line of baby
products by the end of 2013, will also remove potential carcinogens and other
dangerous chemicals from its adult products, the Associated Press reported.
"We want people to have complete
peace of mind when they use our products," said Susan Nettesheim, vice
president of product stewardship and toxicology for J&J's consumer health
brands, speaking to AP.
According to PR Newswire, Johnson &
Johnson also announced the launch of a new initiative to help consumers better
understand exactly what the company is doing to make their products as safe as
possible.
The initiative doesn't come a second too
soon. Yesterday, Smithsonian magazine published a damning article about how
triclosan, a common chemical found in most antibacterial products, can slow
muscle function in both animals and humans.
Though Triclosan is used in everything
from toothpaste to bedding, the FDA has said that regular soap and water are as
effective as antibacterial soaps.
Along with triclosan, possible carcinogens
1,4 disoxane and formaldehyde, and phthalates and parabens are getting the
boot.
Since 2010, Johnson & Johnson has
already reduced the number of products that contain formaldehyde by 33 percent
and the products that contain 1,4 dioxane by 74 percent.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics lauds the
company's moves, saying that Johnson & Johnson has got further than any
other cosmetics company.
Johnson & Johnson
Sandra
E. Peterson is the group worldwide chairman for the Johnson
& Johnson, and was the EVP for Bayer
HealthCare.
Note: Bayer
HealthCare is a subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Sidley
Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Bayer HealthCare,
and was the lobby firm for Johnson & Johnson.
R. Eden
Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and contributed
$125,000 of Nobel Prize money to the United Negro College Fund.
Newton N.
Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Leo F.
Mullin is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and a director at Johnson & Johnson.
William
D. Perez is a director at the Johnson & Johnson,
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and
was the president & CEO for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
William
Wrigley Jr. II was the chairman for the Wm. Wrigley
Jr. Company, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Linda
Johnson Rice is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
a director at the United Negro College Fund,
and a friend of Valerie B. Jarrett.
Steven
S. Reinemund was a director at the United Negro College Fund,
and a director at Johnson & Johnson.
Charles
O. Prince III was a director at the United Negro College Fund,
a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a director at Johnson & Johnson.
Klaus Kleinfeld
is a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a director at Bayer AG, and a
2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then became part of IG
Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II, the IG
Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor camps,
notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG Farben
owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical used in
the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After World War
II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an individual
business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in
prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, was made head of the supervisory
board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Bayer
HealthCare is a subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Sidley
Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Bayer HealthCare,
and was the lobby firm for Johnson & Johnson.
R. Eden
Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie
B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
the senior adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E.
Jordan Jr.
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Urban Institute (think tank).
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), married to Ann Dibble
Jordan, a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, was a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ann
Dibble Jordan is married to Vernon E. Jordan Jr., an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and was a director at
Johnson & Johnson.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for Johnson & Johnson.
James E.
Burke was the chairman & CEO for Johnson & Johnson,
and a life
trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank).
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