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Deadly COVID-19 Hand Sanitizer Production Surge Prompted US FDA's New Import Alert Category

 
• By Joanne S. Eglovitch

New import alert category and border testing required after reduced standards put dangerous sanitizers into hands of US consumers.

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US FDA Creates New Import Category In Responding To Loosening Manufacturing Standards • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration has created a new import alert category, 66-78, to stem the importation of contaminated hand sanitizers, which has caused nationwide adverse events and some deaths.

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