The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added five hand sanitizers to its list of products that have tested positive for a toxic chemical.<\/p>\n
These additional hand sanitizer products tested positive for methanol, which is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through skin or ingested.<\/p>\n
The FDAs discovery comes justtwo weeks after the agency advised consumersnot to use nine hand sanitizers manufactured by the Mexican company Eskbiochem SA, because samples had tested positive for methanol.<\/p>\n
Exposure to significant amounts of methanol can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death.<\/p>\n
Anyone exposed to these hand sanitizers should seek immediate treatment, the FDA warns.<\/p>\n
The five hand sanitizers added to the FDAs list are:<\/p>\n
These have all been manufactured in Mexico as well.<\/p>\n
TheU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saysthat proper hand hygiene is an effective response to Covid-19, and the agency recommends using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol.<\/p>\n
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