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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
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday July 30 2020, @10:47PM (1 child)
Darwinism only applies when an activity or object is known to be dangerous, or when there's good reason for an individual to expect it to be. I don't know the specifics about the tank of alcohol (like whether there was something about it that might have tipped the survivors off that it was poisonous), but since hand sanitizer isn't normally toxic, the injuries and deaths caused by using it in a normal fashion don't qualify as cases of Darwinism.
(Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Saturday August 01 2020, @01:21AM
they don't? strange - they do for me. like when using medical things from Mexico. I don't, just like I don't use medical things from Amazon.
it's a perfect example of darwinism. people stupid enough to ignore basic caution die
next up: people get sick from mexican diet pills. wait, that's not next up - they were selling pills with tapeworm eggs. next up: pain pills from mexico kill. wait, that happened too -they sold and still sell pain meds with metamizole.