{"id":105778,"date":"2025-10-28T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105778\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:19:06","slug":"texas-sues-tylenol-makers-alleging-deceptive-marketing-to-pregnant-people-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105778\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas sues Tylenol makers alleging deceptive marketing to pregnant people | Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken Paxton, the Texas<\/a> attorney general, filed a lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, claiming they deceptively marketed the pain medication to pregnant people despite alleged risks of autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children.<\/p>\n

Paxton filed the suit on Tuesday in Texas state court against Johnson & Johnson, the creators of Tylenol, and Kenvue, a Johnson & Johnson spinoff company which has sold Tylenol since 2023.<\/p>\n

Paxton, who is currently running for US Senate, alleged that both companies violated Texas\u2019s consumer protection laws by not warning buyers. Paxton is also suing Johnson & Johnson for allegedly violating the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act by \u201cfraudulently transferring liabilities arising from Tylenol\u201d to Kenvue, said<\/a> the Texas attorney general in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of the risks. These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets,\u201d said Paxton in a press release.<\/p>\n

Texas is the first state to file such a suit after the Trump administration<\/a> claimed last month that acetaminophen, a drug ingredient in Tylenol, carries a risk of autism, despite no new evidence suggesting that.<\/p>\n

The latest suit comes only days<\/a> after Donald Trump again warned pregnant people not to take the over-the-counter medication unless \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d and that children should not be given Tylenol \u201cfor virtually any reason\u201d in comments made on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

Tylenol makers have repeatedly defended the pain medication. Kenvue released a statement Tuesday in response to Paxton\u2019s lawsuit, saying<\/a>: \u201cAcetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout it, women face dangerous choices: suffer through conditions like fever that are potentially harmful to both mom and baby or use riskier alternatives,\u201d the Kenvue statement continued.<\/p>\n

In a previous September statement, Kenvue also said that it \u201cstrongly disagrees\u201d with assertions that Tylenol may cause autism. \u201cSound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

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Top medical groups have similarly defended the use of Tylenol by pregnant people. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) called<\/a> the Trump administration\u2019s guidance on Tylenol \u201cirresponsible\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuggestions that acetaminophen use in pregnancy causes autism are not only highly concerning to clinicians but also irresponsible when considering the harmful and confusing message they send to pregnant patients, including those who may need to rely on this beneficial medicine during pregnancy,\u201d said the group in a September statement.<\/p>\n

Republican Texas senator John Cornyn, who is facing a primary challenge from Paxton, criticized the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it looks like he can\u2019t help himself. He wants to line the pockets of every trial lawyer in the state,\u201d Cornyn said of Paxton. \u201cHe ran off all of his professional staff, and now he has to hire trial lawyers … and they\u2019re some of his biggest supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he believes there\u2019s a connection between Tylenol and Autism, Cornyn said: \u201cWell, I have a JD, which makes me a doctor of jurisprudence, not a medical doctor, not a PhD. So I\u2019ll have to defer to the experts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, filed a lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, claiming they deceptively marketed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-105778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}