Johnson and Toxin, Er, Johnson and Johnson
Posted By Stephanie Tripp on May 14, 2011
Johnson and Johnson has three facets to their company: body care products, medical diagnostic equipment and pharmaceuticals. This represents an extreme conflict of interest when considering they have the power, and obviously the lack of ethics, to cause disease with their products, diagnose the diseases they caused with their body care products with their diagnostics products, and then treat the diseases their body care products caused with their pharmaceutical products. I have a problem with *all* companies that include risky chemicals in consumer goods, however, Johnson and Johnson wins the “Lack of Ethics” award of the highest standing by combining harm with the perception of improving health and caring – when all they really care about is their, not your childs, bottom line. In April of 2011, Johnson and Johnson agreed to a $70 million settlement for criminal charges to the Justice Department and Disgorgement and Interest to the Securities Exchange for bribery, according to the Huffington Post. Johnson and Johnson bribed officials and doctors in Greece, Romania, Poland and Iraq for preferential treatment of their pharmaceutical products. This was a trusted company for over 100 years. In addition to lacking ethics in their business dealings, they also lack ethics in the chemicals they choose to use in their products.
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