This information is current from the US Food and Drug Administration. It refers to imported hand sanitizers from Mexico. It does not discuss hand sanitizers that are made in Mexico for Mexican consumption. But it’s still important to know, just in case.
FDA WARNS CONSUMERS NOT TO USE ALCOHOL HAND SANITIZERS FROM MEXICO
Hand sanitizers from Mexico containing a toxic form of alcohol have been placed on import alert by the FDA, based on a sharp increase the agency has seen in products labeled to contain ethanol that actually have methanol as an ingredient. Methanol, or wood alcohol, can be toxic when absorbed through the skin. Methanol-contaminated hand sanitizers have been implicated in blindness, cardiac effects, effects on the central nervous system, hospitalizations, and death. Exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system, or death. Young children who ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink them as an alcohol substitute are most at risk.
FDA NEWS RELEASE
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Takes Action to Place All Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers from Mexico on Import Alert to Help Prevent Entry of Violative and Potentially Dangerous Products into U.S., Protect U.S. Consumers
As in most products applied to your skin Check the ingredients and or where it is produced! Best idea is I carry small spray organic product with me so I know what i am using .
The problem with many of these products is that they are improperly labeled. The bottles may say alcohol when the manufacturers have actually added methanol.