Some Hand Sanitizers Are Contaminated with Benzene

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Kids & Family

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Hand sanitizers have become ubiquitous in homes, doctors’ offices, supermarkets, banks and dozens of other establishments. There have been problems with some products that were contaminated with methanol, also known as wood alcohol. Read about this known problem here. Now a new impurity has surfaced. A surprising number of hand sanitizers are contaminated with the […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:07.0	Today we're talking with David Light, founder and CEO of Valisher. This online pharmacy puts medications through a rigorous chemical analysis before sending them to customers. The company website is Valisure.com.
0:27.4	We spoke with David Light previously about the problem with Zantac and the potentially cancer-causing chemical that can
0:34.3	contaminate it. Today you will learn about some contaminants found in hand
0:40.2	sanitizers. In particular, Valashure discovered that some products contain benzene.
0:47.0	David Light, welcome back to the People's Pharmacy.
0:51.0	Pleasure to be with you again.
0:53.0	Thank you.
0:54.0	David, Light, you always seem to be uncovering new disasters
0:59.0	in the pharmaceutical industry.
1:01.0	And although this isn't exactly the pharmaceutical industry can you tell us what you
1:06.8	discovered?
1:07.8	Sure it's we're looking right now at hand sanitizers, which are technically drug products
1:16.1	according to the FDA and have uncovered a known human carcinogen called
1:21.3	benzene in many of these.
1:23.2	Eek!
1:24.2	Benzene is not good for us.
1:26.6	That's correct.
1:28.4	It's been studied for over 120 years and linked to leukemia and a variety of problems with blood cancers.
1:37.0	How did you discover this problem?
1:40.0	So at Valisher, we analyze thousands of drug products on a regular basis that go through our own pharmacy and partners and we're constantly adding what we're looking for
1:52.2	There's been a lot of problems with adding what we're looking for.
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