FDA Recalls 75 Hand Sanitizers With Methanol: Full List

CALIFORNIA — If you’re like a lot of Americans worried about coronavirus exposure, high demand for and shortages of your favorite hand sanitizers may have sent you to brands you’d never heard of but which promised the same bacteria-killing agents. Read the label carefully, the Food and Drug Administration advises, after recalling 75 brands that contain methanol, which can cause serious health complications.

The agency said anyone who used hand sanitizers containing methanol, which is also known as wood alcohol, should immediately seek medical treatment to reverse the toxic effects of methanol poisoning.

Substantial methanol exposure can result in "nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death,” the FDA said on its website.

All people who used the product on their hands are at risk, the FDA said. But the agency cautioned that “young children who accidentally ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute are most at risk for methanol poisoning.”

The 75 FDA-recalled hand sanitizers, on a list that has been frequently updated, are:

1. 4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Hand Sanitizer (70 percent alcohol)

2. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Clear Ethyl Alcohol (70 percent alcohol)

3. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Clear

4. 4E Global's KLAR Instant Hand Sanitizer labeled as Greenbrier International Inc.

5. 4E Global's DANVER Instant Hand Sanitizer labeled as Greenbrier International Inc.

6. 4E Global's Modesa Instant Hand Sanitizer Moisturizers and Vitamin E

7. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer

8. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Aloe

9. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Lavender

10. 4E Global's Blumen Clear Lear Advanced Hand Sanitizer

11. 4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Hand Sanitizer

12. 4E Global's The Honeykeeper Hand Sanitizer

13. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Clear

14. 4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer

15. 4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe

16. 4E Global's Blumen Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Lavender

17. 4E Global's Blumen Aloe Advanced Hand Sanitizer, with 70 percent alcohol

18. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Lavender, with 70 percent alcohol

19. 4E Global's Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Aloe, with 70 percent alcohol

20. 4E Global's Blumen Antibacterial Fresh Citrus Hand Sanitizer

21. 4E Global's Blumen Hand Sanitizer Fresh Citrus

22. 4E Global's Klar Instant Hand Sanitizer

23. 4E Global's Danver Instant Hand Sanitizer

24. 4E Global's Hello Kitty by Sanrio Hand Sanitizer

25. 4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer (Vitamin E and Aloe)

26. 4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer (Aloe and Moisturizers)

27. 4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer Vitamin E and Aloe

28. 4E Global's Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe and Moisturizers

29. 4E Global's Blumen Instant Hand Sanitizer Fragrance-Free

30. 4E Global's Blumen Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe Vera

31. 4E Global's Assured Aloe

32. AAA Cosmetica's bio aaa Advance Hand Sanitizer

33. AAA Cosmetica's LumiSkin Advance Hand Sanitizer (multiple sizes)

34. AAA Cosmetica's QualitaMed Hand Sanitizer

35. DDI Multinacional's Earths Amenities Instant Unscented Hand Sanitizer with Aloe Vera Advanced

36. DDI Multinacional's Hand Sanitizer Agavespa Skincare

37. DDI Multinacional's Vidanos Easy Cleaning Rentals Hand Sanitizer Agavespa Skincare

38. Eskbiochem's All-Clean Hand Sanitizer

39. Eskbiochem's Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer

40. Eskbiochem's Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer

41. Eskbiochem's The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer

42. Eskbiochem's CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer, with 80 percent alcohol

43. Eskbiochem's CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer, with 75 percent alcohol

44. Eskbiochem's Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer

45. Grupo Insoma's Hand sanitizer Gel Unscented, with 70 percent alcohol

46. Limpo Quimicos' Andy’s Best

47. Limpo Quimicos' Andy’s

48. Limpo Quimicos' Gelclor

49. Limpo Quimicos' NeoNatural

50. Limpo Quimicos' Plus Advanced

51. Liqesa Exportacion (Liq-E-S.A.) Optimus Lubricants Instant Hand Sanitizer

52. Maquiladora Miniara's Shine and Clean Hand Sanitizer

53. Maquiladora Miniara's Selecto Hand Sanitizer

54. Mystic International's Mystic Shield Protection Hand Sanitizer

55. Soluciones Cosmeticas’ Bersih Hand Sanitizer Gel Fragrance-Free

56. Soluciones Cosmeticas’ Antiseptic (alcohol 70 percent) Topical Solution hand sanitizer

57. Soluciones Cosmeticas’ Hand Sanitizer labeled as Wet Look Janitorial

58. Soluciones Cosmeticas’ Hand Sanitizer labeled as Gardening Corp.

59. Tropicosmeticos' Britz Hand Sanitizer (ethyl alcohol 70 percent)

60. Yara Elena De La Garza Perez Nieto's DAESI hand sanitizer

61. Real Clean Distribuciones's Born Basic Anti-Bac Hand Sanitizer

62. Real Clean Distribuciones's Anti-Bac Hand Sanitizer

63. Real Clean Distribuciones's Scent Theory Pure Clean Anti-bacterial Hand Sanitizer

64. Real Clean Distribuciones's Cavalry

65. Real Clean Distribuciones's Enliven Hand Sanitizing Gel

66. Real Clean Distribuciones's Lux Eoi Hand Sanitizing Gel

67. Real Clean Distribuciones's Keep It Clean

68. Real Clean Distribuciones's Hand Sanitizer

69. MXL Comercial's Hand Sanitizer Disinfectant Gel, with 70 percent ethyl alcohol

70. MXL Comercial's Hand Sanitizer Disinfectant Gel (70 percent ethyl alcohol) Rinse Free Hand Rub

71. Liqesa Exportacion Optimus Lubricants Instant Hand Sanitizer

72. Scent Theory 'Keep It Clean' Anti-Bacterial Hand Sanitizer

73. MXL Comercial / Resource Recovery & Trading Hand Sanitizer Disinfectant Gel (70 percent ethyl alcohol

74. Eskbiochem 361 All Clean Hand Sanitizer, Moisturizer and Disinfectant

75. Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer (officially banned from imports on July 15)

The market research company ReportLinker said sales of hand sanitizer products in the United States grew 73 percent in March, the first full month of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.

U.S. sales of hand sanitizers totaled more than $2.7 billion in 2019, according to the market research company Grand View Research, which expects sales of such products to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 22.6 percent through 2027. The company said polls show 77 percent of Americans surveyed in April regularly used hand sanitizers.

Beth Dalbey contributed reporting.

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