FDA warns sanitizer manufacturers for making misleading COVID-19 related claims and aims ot increase alcohol-based hand sanitizers after increases in calls to poison control centers
In the rush to provide some level of defense against COVD-19, some companies are developing unsafe products and the FDA is coming after them. Prefense, the maker of hand sanitizers has claimed that their product kills germs up to 24 hours and works on COVID-19. The FDA sent the company a warning letter and is asking others to create safer products . SILVER SPRING, Md. , April 27, 2020 -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration provided an update on its efforts to ensure the availability of alcohol-based sanitizer to help meet the demand for hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the agency's significant flexibility, more than 1,500 additional manufacturers have registered with the agency to produce hand sanitizer. At the same time, the agency is addressing safety concerns related to products being sold that are not in line with the FDA's policy and others being marketed with unproven claims. "We appreciate industry's willingnes...