In a final ruling announced Friday, the Food and Drug Administration is pulling from the market a wide range of antimicrobial soaps after manufacturers failed to show that the soaps are both safe and more effective than plain soap. The federal flushing applies to any hand soap or antiseptic wash product that has one or more of 19 specific chemicals in them, including the common triclosan (found in antibacterial hand soap) and triclocarbon (found in bar soaps). Manufacturers will have one year to either reformulate their products or pull them from the market entirely.
[...] The ruling does not affect alcohol-based hand sanitizers or wipes, which the agency is reviewing separately. It also does not affect antiseptic products used in healthcare settings.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @07:28AM
does not affect antiseptic products used in healthcare settings
Becuz yessir Bama cares!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by takyon on Saturday September 03 2016, @07:40AM
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265044/ [nih.gov]
What's in your disgusting American body?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @07:51AM
What's in your disgusting American body?
I'm full of shit.
(Score: 3, Touché) by tfried on Saturday September 03 2016, @08:05AM
Yeah. Because now the addicts will need to go to the hospital to get their daily does of antiseptic. -> Huge profit!!!!
Seriously, if it really takes an Obama to figure that the cost-benefit trade-off may be different in a healthcare setting, then I'm all for a third term.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @08:15AM
Hell yeah, if evvvvvvverybodyyyyyy writes-in Barracks O'Bummer for Prez, he can't lose! Fuck the Constitution!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 03 2016, @08:52AM
Soetoro Beamu~
(Score: 2) by tfried on Saturday September 03 2016, @08:57AM
You're right. That is what I am calling for in my above comment, subject to that if-clause. But for extra clarity I'll amend that with "and Lord have mercy!"
(While the real tragedy behind our conversation, AC, is that it's getting so hard to tell deliberate trolling from honest idiocy. Which am I responding to?)