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

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

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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.

The agency's action responds to methanol contamination that followed a loosening standards for these products to enable a swift increase...

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