AFTER years promoting its Band-Aid adhesive bandages as "healing heals cuts twice as fast" and "fast healing", US health care giant Johnson and Johnson has decided to remove the claims from advertising programs.
The move follows a request by Australian health activist Ken Harvey who wrote to J&J for copies of research held by the company to support the faster healing claims.
The company told Fairfax Media it does have the data, but it is not published and the claims would be removed from all of its advertising.
"There is an abundance of independent literature in the public domain to support faster healing of covered wounds," according to a J&J Pacific spokesperson.
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