Hand sanitizers made in China, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia and Utah now on the FDA’s Do Not Use list

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David J. Neal
,Miami Herald•August 13, 2020

The FDA’s Do Not Use hand sanitizer list, once a roll call of Mexican-made hand sanitizers with methanol, now includes hand sanitizers from China, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia and Utah.

And methanol’s been joined by 1-propanol as a prohibited “toxic” ingredient.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information said 1-propanol “is used as a solvent in the pharmaceutical industry, and for resins and cellulose esters.”

As for the FDA, it said, “1-propanol, not to be confused with 2-propanol/isopropanol/isopropyl alcohol, is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizer products marketed in the United States and can be toxic and life-threatening when ingested.”

That’s also a threat with methanol, also known as wood alcohol. One difference seems to be that the FDA warns methanol can be toxic when absorbed into the skin, making it dangerous to people using hand sanitizer as it’s designed.

The latest additions to the FDA’s Do Not Use List (in alphabetical order of manufacturer):

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