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Mounting Poisonings, Blindness, Deaths as Toxic Hand Sanitizers Flood Market

posted by martyb on Thursday July 30 2020, @03:25AM   
from the race-to-the-bottom dept.

Freeman writes:

Mounting poisonings, blindness, deaths as toxic hand sanitizers flood market

The Food and Drug Administration is renewing warnings this week of dangerous hand sanitizers as it continues to find products that contain toxic methanol—a poisonous alcohol that can cause systemic effects, blindness, and death.

The agency's growing "do-not-use list" of dangerous sanitizers now includes 87 products. And with the mounting tally, the FDA also says there are rising reports from state health departments and poison control centers of injuries and deaths.

"We remain extremely concerned about the potential serious risks of alcohol-based hand sanitizers containing methanol," said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn in a statement.

Previously:
Toxic Hand Sanitizers Have Blinded and Killed Adults and Children, FDA Warns
Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns

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• Re:The irony Re:The irony (Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:40AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:40AM (#1028481) Journal

  Yeah, an atomic bomb is just like a cracker. A really really really deadly version of a cracker, but just like it otherwise.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

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• Re:The irony (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @01:58PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @01:58PM (#1029284)

  technically the really really big cracker doesn't do EMP and it doesn't do radiation fallout.
  but in practical outcome I'd say you're right, the "big cracker" aspect does the most damage.

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