Johnson & Johnson has approved a new logo.

The healthcare behemoth announced Thursday that it will replace its well-known distinctive script, which it has used since 1887, with a more modern design that reflects its increased emphasis on pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

The original script, based on co-founder James Wood Johnson’s signature, will be featured on consumer products such as infant shampoo from Kenvue, a new firm spun out from J&J.

J&J has focused on drugs and medical devices. The new appearance, which features a distinct shade of red, intends to reflect J&J’s transformation into a “pure play health care company,” according to executive vice president Vanessa Broadhurst.

J&J’s trademark logo was “one of the longest-used company emblems in the world,” according to a 2017 website post.

However, it began to show its age in an age of texting and emoticons.

Johnson & Johnson has approved a new logo.

According to marketing strategist Laura Ries, many youngsters no longer learn to write cursive in school. According to her, people may have recognized the signature but needed to be reading it. She claims that the new logo is easier to understand.

“Because it’s easier, it almost draws your attention to it,” Ries, who was not involved in the logo change, said.

Ries also discovered that customers were likelier to associate the script logo with Kenvue products on drugstore shelves, such as Band-Aids, Listerine, and Tylenol.

Johnson & Johnson has approved a new logo.

“Everyone washed their babies with Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo,” she explained.

According to a Kenvue spokeswoman, the J&J logo on products such as Band-Aids will be gradually erased.

The distinctive emblem was also found on bottles of the company’s now-discontinued talcum-based infant powder, which sparked cancer lawsuits. J&J has stated that the powder was completely safe.

J&J’s consumer business helped the company become the world’s largest manufacturer of healthcare items, with annual revenues exceeding $90 billion. However, by the time the split was announced in late 2021, its pharmaceutical and medical device divisions had comfortably overtaken it in size.

J&J, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, J&J will also rebrand its Janssen pharmaceutical division to J&J Innovative Medicine. Its medical device and technology division will be known as MedTech.

SOURCE – (AP)

Amazon and eBay have pulled from sale a super-hot tortilla chip linked to the death of an American adolescent.

Harris Wolobah’s parents feel the One Chip Challenge was to blame for his death last week.

It was removed from shelves in the United States, where it was widely distributed, but imports from global vendors remained available.

After being contacted by BBC Newsbeat, Amazon stated it would remove the goods from its sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

The online store also intends to notify any international buyers who have lately purchased the snack.

An eBay spokeswoman stated that user safety was a “top priority” and that sale listings had been removed.

“We are closely monitoring our site and will remove any additional listings that appear,” they added.

Harris’s death has not been officially determined, but his parents have urged for the One Chip Challenge to be stopped.

Paqui, a snack company, claims that the single tortilla, which comes in a coffin-shaped box, has a blend of “the hottest peppers available.”

Millions of people have watched YouTubers and TikTokers take the viral challenge and respond violently.

The challenge’s popularity is claimed to have prompted many youngsters to purchase the product, which comes with a warning label, to attempt it for themselves.

Amazon and eBay have pulled from sale a super-hot tortilla chip linked to the death of an American adolescent.

Paqui issued a statement on its website on Thursday announcing its decision to withdraw merchandise from American retailers.

According to the firm, the challenge is “intended for adults only” and is inappropriate for anyone with underlying health concerns or allergies.

However, it reported an “increase in teens and other individuals failing to heed these warnings.”

“As a result, while the product continues to meet food safety standards, we are actively working with our retailers to remove the product from shelves,” the company said.

A Paqui representative told Newsbeat, “We are deeply saddened by the death of Harris Wolobah and express our condolences to the family.”

“We care about all of our customers and have decided to remove the product from the shelves.”

They claimed that the product’s label “clearly states” that it is unsuitable for youngsters or those sensitive to spicy foods.

“We are actively working with our retailers and are offering refunds for any purchases of our single-serve one chip challenge product,” the company said.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom told Newsbeat that it is working to determine where the product is distributed.

The FSA’s Tina Potter stated, “So far, we have not received any reports of illness here.”

In most cases, eating chillis and spicy foods is regarded as harmless, depending on your tolerance.

However, the body’s reaction to extremely spicy foods might resemble its response to burns, resulting in symptoms such as perspiration.

SOURCE – (BBC)

Peloton faces legal action after a man was killed in an accident involving one of its cycles.

Johanna Furtado filed a lawsuit against the workout equipment manufacturer, which has denied any wrongdoing, more than a year after her son Ryan Furtado, 32, was killed while using a Peloton spin bike for an exercise in January 2022. Johanna alleged in court records filed in March 2023 that her son, who had purchased the bike six months prior, was killed while performing a virtually-instructed “Core” workout given by the equipment.

“The workout requires riders to disembark the bike and conduct exercises on the floor,” according to the documents. “Ryan got off the bike and started doing floor exercises.” Ryan utilized the bike to help him get up after finishing those workouts. The bike turned around and hit him in the neck and face, severing his carotid artery and killing him instantaneously.”

The New York Police Department discovered Ryan with the “bike still resting on his neck and face,” according to the lawsuit.

Peloton faces legal action after a man was killed in an accident involving one of its cycles.

Johanna also claims in her filing that Peloton sold her son the bike “in a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition” and “knew or should have known of the risk of personal injury associated with continuously stretching on the bike during workouts, causing the Subject Bike to destabilise and fall, injuring the user.”

She seeks compensatory damages, medical expenses, and other economic damages and a jury trial.

Peloton Interactive, Inc. claims in a response filed in June and obtained by the Daily Beast that Ryan’s “alleged injuries or damages, if any, were caused or contributed to by [his] own negligence, intentional act and/or fault” and not by the company, which is not legally responsible.

In a statement to E! News on September 8, a Peloton spokeswoman said, “We offer our deepest sympathy and condolences to the Furtado family for this unfortunate accident.” The health and safety of our Member community is a primary priority for us as a Member-first company.”

According to the Furtado family’s lawyers, Mike Morgan and Gennady Voldz, Peloton “has a duty to communicate clearly and honestly with customers about the dangers inherent in their products.”

Peloton faces legal action after a man was killed in an accident involving one of its cycles.

“The sympathy and condolences Peloton has offered to our client in public statements ring hollow while their lawyers deny any responsibility and blame Mr. Furtado for his own tragic and avoidable death,” they said. “We will do everything in our power to hold Peloton accountable for their actions and inactions that allegedly led to the death of a kind and funny 32-year-old man who should still be with us today.”

Johanna’s lawsuit, initially reported by the Daily Beast on September 6, features the first-known death involving a Peloton cycle, which became popular after the COVID-19 epidemic began in 2020 as people increasingly worked out at home.

However, the company’s treadmills have been involved in disastrous situations in the past. A 6-year-old child died after being pushed into a Peloton treadmill in 2021, while a 3-year-old had a “significant brain injury” following an accident that left him “trapped under a Peloton Tread+,” according to an incident report filed with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

The product was later recalled, and the CPSC announced in January that Peloton had agreed to pay a $19 million civil penalty that “resolves CPSC’s charges that Peloton knowingly failed to immediately report to CPSC, as required by law, that its Tread+ treadmill contained a defect that could create a substantial product hazard and created an unreasonable risk of serious injury to consumers.”

“By the time Peloton filed a report with the Commission, there were more than 150 reports of people, pets, and/or objects being pulled under the rear of the Tread+ treadmill,” according to the CPSC, “including the death of a child and 13 injuries, including broken bones, lacerations, abrasions, and friction burns.”

Peloton later told NBC News and other publications that it was happy with the settlement and that “it continues to pursue the CPSC’s approval of a Tread+ rear guard that would further augment its safety features.” The firm also stated that it “remains deeply committed to our members’ safety and well-being, as well as the continuous improvement of our products.”

SOURCE – (E)