Blanket Warning By US FDA For Sanitizers Made By Mexico Firms Linked To Methanol Contamination

Hand sanitizers made by firms in Mexico are becoming a higher US public health concern with one manufacturer yet to recall all supplies of multiple brands found to contain methanol and with import alerts imposed to block imports of its and other providers’ products.

The Food and Drug Administration on 27 July published another in a series of increasingly strident warnings to consumers and health care professions against using alcohol-based hand sanitizers made by Eskbiochem S.A. de C.V. and other firms in Mexico due to the presence of methanol, or wood alcohol