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

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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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2020, @05:45PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 30 2020, @05:45PM (#1028808) Journal

    Globalization and Chinese economic integration in particular gave us the Wuhan flu.

    You are delusional. The virus could have popped in any part of the world and infected US all the same, Chinese economic integration or not.

    I don't know what severing the economic ties with China will do to US economy by I can tell you:
    1. it will not defend US from the next pandemic and will not have any consequence over how the next pandemic will play in US
    2. an idiotic reaction as the one of the Orange Clown had to the present pandemic will cause the same level of hurt on US society. Or much worse if the next pandemic is a deadlier virus (... shudders... Ebola or Marburg virus)

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