Product Description

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that R.T. Vanderbilt Company (later Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC) mined and sold Gouverneur, New York talc — marketed under brand names including Nytal and Ceramitalc — that was allegedly contaminated with tremolite and anthophyllite asbestos native to the Gouverneur talc geology. The Gouverneur ore body has been the subject of decades of dispute regarding fibrous-amphibole content; publicly filed litigation has alleged that R.T. Vanderbilt supplied allegedly-contaminated talc as a raw material to Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, ceramic manufacturers, rubber compounders, and joint-compound formulators, and that end products carrying this talc allegedly delivered amphibole fibers to consumers and industrial workers.

Vanderbilt talc has been implicated on both the consumer-cosmetic side (as an ingredient in branded consumer talcum powders) and the industrial side (as filler in ceramics, rubber, paints, and joint compounds).

Workers Exposed and Household Consumers

  • Consumer users of downstream cosmetic talc products formulated with Vanderbilt Gouverneur talc
  • Ceramic and pottery workers using Ceramitalc as body filler and glaze filler
  • Rubber compounders using Nytal grades as reinforcing filler
  • Joint compound and paint mixers and drywall finishers working with talc-filled products
  • R.T. Vanderbilt mine and mill workers at the Gouverneur NY operations
  • Downstream J&J, Colgate, and other packaged-goods factory workers handling raw Vanderbilt talc
  • Household contact exposure via fibers on work clothes returning home from all of the above

If You Used or Worked Around R.T. Vanderbilt Talc

If you or a family member consumed cosmetic products formulated with Vanderbilt Gouverneur talc, worked in a ceramics/rubber/joint-compound trade using Vanderbilt talc, or worked at a facility handling raw Vanderbilt talc — and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease — publicly filed litigation has established R.T. Vanderbilt as a talc-supply-chain defendant.

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