84% of Mexican Hand Sanitizers Toxic or Flawed; FDA Issues Drastic Alert
Freeman writes:
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind alert to try to block the import of toxic hand sanitizers from Mexico, which have been flooding the market amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last June, the regulatory agency began issuing alerts and warnings for consumers about dangerous and counterfeit hand sanitizers, many of which were made in Mexico. Since then, the FDA has issued alerts on 226 products. An FDA survey conducted between April and December found that 84 percent of products tested from Mexico were not in compliance with FDA regulations.
[...] Along with spotting the dangerous products, the agency also said it began getting reports from states of methanol poisonings from sanitizers, which in some cases lead to blindness, cardiac effects, effects on the central nervous system, hospitalizations, and deaths in adults and children. The agency notes that methanol exposures can cause nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system, or death. Though the products pose risks to anyone using the sanitizers properly-they can be absorbed through the skin-the products are most dangerous to small children who may drink them out of curiosity or adults who drink them as an alcohol substitute.
Previously:
Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns
Toxic Hand Sanitizers Have Blinded and Killed Adults and Children, FDA Warns
Mounting Poisonings, Blindness, Deaths as Toxic Hand Sanitizers Flood Market
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