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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: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Saturday September 03 2016, @08:16PM
But the scares about multi-drug resistant bacteria are one of the reasons I favor having anti-bacterial soaps be prescription only. I don't really think that's a good idea, but I sometimes wonder.
I basically hate the idea that anything would be prescription only, and if people were only going to hurt themselves, I wouldn't see that as an argument in favor of the requirement. This, though, is something else. It fosters the evolution of an environment that's dangerous to those not using the product as well as those that do. And the market can't solve "tragedy of the commons" type situations. It's like the anti-vaxers who depend on others getting vaccinated, because vaccines have a slight danger, and aren't completely effective, so you need to depend on herd immunity. Another "tragedy of the commons" type of situation. Those people should be excluded from all community events. If they want to live that way, let them live where populations are sparse enough that communicable diseases will automatically die out.
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