When Kayla Ridgely, a nurse in Queen Creek, Arizona, stumbled across bottles of hand sanitizer on sale for 99 cents at her local Walmart, it seemed like a gold mine. It was early in the pandemic, when ...

PerkinElmer, Inc. PKI recently announced that its Hand Sanitizer Analyzer instrument can be utilized to test the presence of methanol in alcohol-based hand sanitizer products with pass/fail results ...

When Kayla Ridgely, a nurse in Queen Creek, Arizona, stumbled across bottles of hand sanitizer on sale for 99 cents at her local Walmart, it seemed like a gold mine. It was early in the pandemic, when ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is providing a laboratory testing method to assess the quality of hand sanitizers, as more products are added to its recall list. The testing method can be used ...

Hand sanitizer does have an expiration date. Recently expired sanitizer may retain some effectiveness but is likely less effective than an in-date product. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A study conducted by an independent pharmacy and lab analyzed more than 260 brands of hand sanitizer and found that 44 of them contained benzene, a toxic chemical that causes ...

Remember the urgency at the start of COVID to stock up on hand sanitizer and, stashing any available bottle in your purse, desk, coat pocket and your car’s cup holder? Yeah…we do, too! Whether ...

Last week the government issued a press release sure to distress anyone who was about to sanitize their hands: "FDA warns that getting alcohol-based hand sanitizer in the eyes can cause serious injury ...

Hand sanitizer has become more popular than ever, in large part due to its effectiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Portable hand sanitizer products kill germs on your hands and other surfaces on ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Hand sanitizer expires after about 2.5 ...