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FDA is Back to Undermining Coronavirus Fight

In today’s article, I looked at the real reason why we have a hand sanitizer shortage, and some of it goes back to FDA insanity which insists on regulating it as a drug.

As part of President Trump’s moves to cut the red tape, the FDA announced that it won’t be cracking down on pharmacies that make their own hand sanitizer. Or as the official government release states, “Policy for Temporary Compounding of Certain Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Products During the Public Health Emergency.”

The FDA’s permissiveness for making hand sanitizer is limited to “State-licensed pharmacies or Federal facilities.” And it’s not providing permission, per se, but announcing that it “does not intend to take action against compounders that prepare alcohol-based hand sanitizers for consumer use for the duration of the public health emergency.”

The FDA issued its final hand sanitizer rule just last year. This rule finalized the FDA’s “tentative final monograph” on hand sanitizer from 1994.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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