Hand sanitizers made in China, Texas, North Carolina now on the FDA’s Do Not Use list

The FDA’s Do Not Use hand sanitizer list, once a roll call of Mexican-made hand sanitizers with methanol, now includes hand sanitizers from China, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia and Utah.

And methanol’s been joined by 1-propanol as a prohibited “toxic” ingredient.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information said 1-propanol “is used as a solvent in the pharmaceutical industry, and for resins and cellulose esters.”

As for the FDA, it said, “1-propanol, not to be confused with 2-propanol/isopropanol/isopropyl alcohol, is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizer products marketed in the United States and can be toxic and life-threatening when ingested.”

That’s also a threat with methanol, also known as wood alcohol. One difference seems to be that the FDA warns methanol can be toxic when absorbed into the skin, making it dangerous to people using hand sanitizer as it’s designed.

The latest additions to the FDA’s Do Not Use List (in alphabetical order of manufacturer):

▪ The FDA found methanol in Grupo Plast Y Kosas M’s Hand Sanitizer Alcohol Antiseptic topical solution 80% Topical Solution Hand Sanitizer. Jalisco Paper Inc Restaurant Supplies Hand Sanitizer made the list by association, as it’s believed to be made in the same facility.

▪ Alcohol Antiseptic 75% Topical Solution Hand Sanitizer by Mexican company Harmonic Nature tested as having 1-propanol.

▪ North Carolina company Open Book Extracts’ Always Be Clean Hand Sanitizer and Just Hand Sanitizer Single Use Packs are labeled as having methanol.

▪ Plastico Las Palmas SA made BV BYE Virus 99 and In Good Hands Hand Sanitizer Gel. The FDA found methanol in the former and believes the latter is made at the same facility. So, both go on the list, although neither has shown up on the U.S. market.

▪ Precision Analitica Integral’s CleanCare Nogerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer failed FDA testing by having methanol but was “subpotent” in ethanol alcohol.

▪ Santa Cruz Biotechnology out of Texas recalled lot No. BF12530 of UltraCruz Hand Sanitizing Gel Antimicrobial because it was too weak in ethanol alcohol.

▪ Georgia company SG24LLC’s SkinGuard 24 All-Day Hand Sanitizer says it has methanol on its label.

▪ Utah company Volu-Sol’s Volu-Sol Handrub Sanitizing Solution, also is “labeled to contain methanol,” the FDA said.

▪ Yangzhou Olande Cosmetic Co. Ltd out of China made Leafree Instant Hand Sanitizer, which the FDA says is “labeled to be ‘edible alcohol.’ ” It got put on the import block list Tuesday.

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