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US FDA Plans Year-End Rinse Of Temporary Policy Easing Standards For OTC Sanitizer Production

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA makes withdrawal effective on 31 December, also the deadline for firms manufacturing or compounding alcohol-based hand sanitizer products, and making alcohol for those products under temporary guidances, to cease production.

• Source: Alamy

US retailers are offering OTC hand sanitizers at discount prices due to surplus stock, the Food and Drug Administration acknowledges by planning to withdraw its temporary guidances which encouraged production by businesses auxiliary to the drug industry.

The agency on 12 October published

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