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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 (Score: 4, Informative) by Booga1 on Thursday July 30 2020, @06:12AM

  by Booga1 (6333) on Thursday July 30 2020, @06:12AM (#1028508)

  Yeah, but "homicide" doesn't typically follow your kids to grandma's house when they visit.
  Though in one aspect, you may be right about the virus being used for homicide: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/22/tributes-paid-to-cab-driver-who-died-of-covid-19-after-being-spat-at [theguardian.com]

  Trevor Belle, 61, died in hospital last month after testing positive for coronavirus. Weeks earlier, his family say, he was spat at by a passenger who refused to pay £9 and told him: “I’ve got the coronavirus – and now you’ve got it, too.”

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