Tests show hand sanitizers contain cancer-causing solvent, but FDA lacks authority to recall
Story Date: 11/11/2021

 

Source: Amy Martyn, MSN, 11/10/21


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 cleaning products were in short supply, and the sanitizer was marketed as safe and plant-based, with a brand name that emphasized that messaging: Artnaturals, a company best known for its essential oils and hair products. But earlier this year, Ridgely came across a study showing that the brand of hand sanitizer she had been using throughout the pandemic...

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