Hand Sanitizer Doesn’t Prevent Disease, and the FDA wants Purell to Stop Saying it Does
Business Wars Daily
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today is Thursday, February 6, and we’re looking at Purell vs. Bath & Body Works.
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| 1:10.8 | Did it ever occur to you that the hand sanitizer you've been using to stay healthy |
| 1:15.2 | possibly isn't doing anything? Huh? That could be the case. The FDA isn't too happy about |
| 1:21.7 | manufacturers claiming otherwise. Late last month, the agency told Gojo Industries, acron ohio company that makes purell hand sanitizer |
| 1:30.5 | to stop claiming that its popular product can prevent the flu norovirus the merce bug and Ebola |
| 1:37.3 | none of which is true the agency sent a letter to gojo warning it to remove the claims from its website |
| 1:43.6 | and blog posts. |
| 1:45.3 | Among the claims that rubbed the FDA the wrong way, that Purel could reduce absenteeism by 51% |
| 1:52.2 | and that it could reduce Mercer and another bug, VRE, by 100% in germ-infested athletic environments, |
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