婴儿爽身粉含致癌物？强生公司再次败诉
A California jury awarded $29 million on Wednesday to a woman who sued Johnson & Johnson, claiming that asbestos in its talcum-based baby powder caused her cancer.
周三，加利福尼亚州的一个陪审团向一名起诉强生公司的女子判了2900万美元的赔偿金,该女子声称，强生婴儿爽身粉中的石棉导致了她的癌症。
An Alameda County jury in Oakland, California, held Johnson & Johnson responsible for Teresa Leavitt’s mesothelioma — a cancer linked to asbestos exposure — through her use of baby powder.
加利福尼亚州奥克兰市阿拉米达县的一个陪审团裁定，强生公司应对特蕾莎·莱维特因使用婴儿爽身粉而患上的间皮瘤—一种与石棉接触有关的癌症—负责。
It is the latest in as many as 13,000 pending lawsuits against the company related to body powders containing talc, according to the annual report the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
根据该公司提交给美国证券交易委员会(sec)的年度报告，这是针对该公司的1.3万起未决诉讼中的最新一起，这些诉讼都与爽身粉有关。
The largest award to date is $4.7 billion, which was awarded in July 2018.
迄今为止，金额最大的赔款是2018年7月判处的47亿美元。
In the same filing, the company also disclosed it is being investigated by the SEC and the Justice Department for its disclosures regarding alleged asbestos contamination in baby powder.
在同一份文件中，该公司还透露，美国证券交易委员会和美国司法部正在因为该公司婴儿爽身粉中石棉污染的指控对其进行调查。
Leavitt's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
莱维特的律师没有立即回应置评请求。
Johnson & Johnson said it is appealing the Oakland jury verdict and maintains that its baby powder is safe.
强生公司表示，正在对奥克兰陪审团的裁决提出上诉，并坚称其婴儿爽身粉是安全的。
"We are disappointed with today’s verdict and will pursue an appeal because Johnson’s Baby Powder does not contain asbestos or cause cancer," the company said in a statement emailed to us.
强生在发给我们的一份电子邮件声明中表示:“我们对今天的判决感到失望，并将提起上诉，因为强生的婴儿爽身粉中不含石棉或致癌物质。”
"Plaintiffs’ attorneys have fundamentally failed to show that Johnson’s Baby Powder contains asbestos, and their own experts concede that they are not recognizing the accepted definition of asbestos and are ignoring crucial distinctions between minerals that are asbestos and minerals that are not. We respect the legal process and reiterate that jury verdicts are not medical, scientific or regulatory conclusions about a product."
“原告律师根本未能证明强生的婴儿爽生粉含有石棉，他们自己的专家也承认，他们没有认识到石棉的公认定义，忽视了石棉和非石棉矿物之间的重要区别。我们尊重法律程序，重申陪审团的裁决不是关于产品的医学、科学或监管结论。”
In December 2018, Reuters published a bombshell investigation alleging the company knew for decades that the talc tested positive for asbestos, and had obtained documents to prove it, which the company had consistently denied.
2018年12月，路透社发布了一份爆炸性调查报告，称该公司数十年来一直知道爽身粉检测出石棉阳性，并获得了证明这一点的文件，但该公司一直予以否认。
"A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public," Reuters reported.
“路透射检查了这些文档,以及证词和审判证词,显示,从1971年至少到2000年代早期,该公司的滑石原料和成品粉末有时少量石棉检测阳性,公司高管,原料经理、科学家、医生和律师都为这个问题和如何解决它而不被监管机构或公众披露而苦恼,”路透社报道。
In a statement to Reuters, a Johnson & Johnson spokesperson wrote: "Plaintiffs’ attorneys out for personal financial gain are distorting historical documents and intentionally creating confusion in the courtroom and in the media.
在给路透社的一份声明中，强生公司的一位发言人写道:“原告的律师为了个人经济利益歪曲历史文件，故意在法庭和媒体上制造混乱。
This is all a calculated attempt to distract from the fact that thousands of independent tests prove our talc does not contain asbestos or cause cancer. Any suggestion that Johnson & Johnson knew or hid information about the safety of talc is false.”
这一切都是经过精心策划的，试图转移人们对一个事实的注意力，即数以千计的独立测试证明，我们的爽身粉不含石棉或致癌物。任何关于强生知道或隐瞒爽身粉安全信息的说法都是错误的。”
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目前，强生公司因为爽身粉而被判处的罚款中最高的一项达到多少？
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