“Keeping your hands clean has never been so crucial as it is now,” says Ellsworth Buck, Vice President of Insurance, Florida's top independent home insurance agency.
According towards the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most effective way to wash your hands would be to wash them with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If you're not able to wash them, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60 % ethanol or ethyl alcohol is nice.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for hand sanitizer has soared. During March it became difficult to find it stocked on store shelves. Even now, stock is continually fluctuating.
The demand has unconventional companies making hand sanitizer. Beauty brands and even ExxonMobil is making hand sanitizer. Distilleries will also be using their way to obtain high proof alcohol to create hand sanitizer. Local Florida distilleries making hand sanitizer include, St. Augustine Distillery and Copper Bottom Craft Distillery.
“Even though many companies are getting into hand sanitizer making, allow the professionals,” says Ellsworth Buck, V . p . of Insurance, Florida's largest independent home insurance agency.
Officials in the US Fda (FDA) have tested hand sanitizers and found most are unsafe. Numerous hand sanitizers have tested positive for methanol or wood alcohol. Methanol can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested. The FDA explains, substantial methanol exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death.”
The FDA found, products containing methanol don't have it listed one of the ingredients within the product. To date, 87 hand sanitizers happen to be added to the growing recall list. Newly added products include those made by Scent Theory, Herbacil, Jaloma and Leiper's Fork Distillery.
The recalled products are manufactured in Mexico and something in Tennessee. Some can be purchased at popular retailers such as Target, Costco, BJs Wholesale Club and Walmart. The FDA's investigation into methanol contamination is ongoing. The agency recommends not only wasting the contaminated sanitizers but avoiding hand sanitizers in the companies on their list.
The full list are available only at that FDA link.
