Hand sanitizer with benezene

[Opti]

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tests-show-hand-sanitizers-contain-cancer-causing-solvent-but-fda-lacks-authority-to-recall/ar-AAQx4rQ?ocid=msedgntp

When Kayla Ridgely, a nurse in Queen Creek, Arizona, stumbled across bottles of hand sanitizer on sale for 99 cents at her local Walmart, it seemed like a gold mine. It was early in the pandemic, when cleaning products were in short supply, and the sanitizer was marketed as safe and plant-based, with a brand name that emphasized that messaging: Artnaturals, a company best known for its essential oils and hair products.

But earlier this year, Ridgely came across a study showing that the brand of hand sanitizer she had been using throughout the pandemic had sold bottles that tested positive for benzene, a solvent made from petroleum that is not allowed to be used in consumer products because it is carcinogenic.

Valisure, the lab that made findings about benzene in samples of Artnaturals sanitizer and other brands, had submitted a citizen petition in March asking the FDA to take action on Artnaturals and other hand sanitizer products. It also offered on its website to test more samples free of charge to anyone else who would send their sanitizer in.



So Ridgely submitted hers and received results in April that it was contaminated with benzene at levels of 13 parts per million — thousands of times above the EPA’s benzene limits of 5 parts per billion in drinking water, and more than six times above the FDA’s temporary guidance during the pandemic allowing trace amounts of benzene in over-the-counter drugs.



List from FDA-

www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitizers-consumers-should-not-use#products

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

15 years from now we will see class action lawsuits commercials.  "Did you use large quantities of hand sanitizer in 2020/2021 you too may be entitled to compensation"

[happyhoix]

Meh. There’s a big difference in a topical product and something you consume. Benzene is an organic that evaporates quickly like ethanol or isopropanol- which yes some will pass through your skin but most will escape as vapors. Unless you like to lick it off your hands before it dries.

I’ll have to look up and see how this concentration compares to what’s in gasoline.