Blanket Warning By US FDA For Sanitizers Made By Mexico Firms Linked To Methanol Contamination
Executive Summary
The agency’s latest in a series of increasingly strident announcements expands its its warning not to use any hand sanitizers from the firms linked to methanol contamination “even if the product or particular lot number are not listed since some manufacturers are recalling only certain – but not all – of their hand sanitizer products.”
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