In response to the growing number of hand sanitizer products found to contain either inadequate levels of the right ingredients or toxic levels of contaminants, the Food and Drug Administration will begin making a lab test available to ensure the quality of these products. The agency’s website alludes to the fact that such testing of hand sanitizer products will be mandatory ...
FDA Provides Hand Sanitizer Lab Test
Posted September 4, 2020 in Product News and Recalls
Hand Sanitizer Warnings Expand Amid Fatalities
Posted August 25, 2020 in covid19 | Product News and Recalls
What began as a small group of just under 10 brands of hand sanitizer to avoid has ballooned into a list of well over 100, and the products have now taken their first lives.
The concern began when various brands of hand sanitizer were shown to contain methanol rather than ethanol. While ethanol is an alcohol-based key component of an effective sanitizer, methanol is toxic ...
continue reading...FDA Cautions on Dozens of Toxic Hand Sanitizers
Posted July 23, 2020 in covid19 | Product News and Recalls
For the vast majority of Americans that are heeding the advice and warnings of the scientific and medical communities, proper hand sanitization is just as much a part of trying to keep themselves and those around them safe as wearing a mask while out in public. As the novel coronavirus made its initial impacts on the country, hand sanitizer was one of the first commodities to become scarce. Small bottles ...
