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C Moon

(12,188 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:30 PM Jun 2020

FDA Warns Against Using 9 Potentially 'Toxic' Hand Sanitizer Products

I'm a hand washer myself, but I do have a small bottle of hand sanitizer in my car and some at home just in case.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/consumer/recall-alert/fda-warns-against-using-9-potentially-toxic-hand-sanitizer-products/2384039/

These are the nine potentially dangerous products identified after the FDA tested Lavar Gel and CleanCare No Germ and detected methanol:

All-Clean Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-002-01)
Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-007-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-008-04)
Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-006-01)
The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-010-10)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-005-03) CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-009-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-003-01)
Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-001-01)

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FDA Warns Against Using 9 Potentially 'Toxic' Hand Sanitizer Products (Original Post) C Moon Jun 2020 OP
There's A Duplicate ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #1
Okay thanks. But for the record: You Saw it Here First! C Moon Jun 2020 #3
I just wash my hands, but I did make my own hand sanitizer at the beginning of this. Tipperary Jun 2020 #2

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
1. There's A Duplicate
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:36 PM
Jun 2020

No big deal, but I posted there, that there's no risk if one buys US products.
I'm pasting to provide some positive feelings about this

..follow their lead.
Methanol in a consumer product is a third rail in those industries.
Here's how I know:
The most commonly used alcohol in consumer goods was SDA 3A. It is ethanol, denatured with methanol to make it undrinkable. (Financial benefit is no liquor tax)
A typical formula would be 5-6% of an ingredient that had 14% alcohol. So 5% of 14%, or 7,000ppm. The methanol content would 5% of that! So, 350ppm. The entire industry switched to SDA 40B, which is still denatured, but zero methanol.
350ppm methanol in a consumer product was considered WAY too much.
These products are 70-80% methanol!
No US manufacturer would touch this formula.
 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
2. I just wash my hands, but I did make my own hand sanitizer at the beginning of this.
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:36 PM
Jun 2020

For myself and some friends. Isopropyl alcohol and aloe gel.

Came out great.

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