At the height of the COVID-19 calamity in March & April of 2020, there was a frenzy to stockpile on hand sanitizer.
Across the globe, manufacturers went into overdrive producing enough hand sanitizer for everyone to feel safe that their hands had zero germs.
But the lightning production of hand sanitizers last year appears to be having a detrimental outcome to public health.
A New Haven, Connecticut based online pharmacy tested 260 hand sanitizer bottles from 168 brands.
The results were an eye-opener to the potential dangers of using hand sanitizer.
Check it out:
44 hand sanitizers made amid pandemic shortages have high levels of cancer-causing chemical considered as dangerous as ASBESTOS https://t.co/fEYwsyIGHr
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 25, 2021
44 bottles contained detectable levels of benzene, a carcinogen that can cause blood cancers such as leukemia.
21 bottles contained levels of benzene above the FDA-recommended limit.
And 1 bottle even had 8 times the FDA-recommended limit.
The brands with the highest levels of benzene hit the market during the spring of 2020.
A recall process has begun, but that’s nearly one year after these tainted products hit the shelves.