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US FDA Clarifies Testing In Sanitizer Production Temporary Guidances To Tighten Compliance

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

The agency clarifies in documents providing temporary guidance on preparing or compounding alcohol-based hand sanitizer products, and manufacturing alcohol for those products, that each lot of alcohol obtained from another source should be tested for methanol.

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The US Food and Drug Administration updates its temporary guidances to spur additional hand sanitizer production following widespread recalls of products found to contain methanol rather than ethanol or isopropyl alcohol as the active ingredient.

The agency on 7 August added to the documents providing temporary guidance on preparing or compounding alcohol-based hand...

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