Already an ACS Member? Choose the membership that is right for you. Discount will be applied automatically at checkout. Your account has been created successfully, and a confirmation email is on the way. Most Popular in Safety Accidental mix of bleach and acid kills Buffalo Wild Wings employee What is an allergy sensitizer, and how does a chemical become one? Credit: Shutterstock Hand sanitizers that contain ethyl alcohol can stay on the US market while the FDA seeks additional safety and efficacy data.
Manufacturers can no longer use 28 active ingredients, including triclosan and benzethonium chloride, in over-the-counter hand sanitizers sold in the US, under a rule finalized by the US Food and Drug Administration on April Millions of consumers rely on hand sanitizers to reduce bacteria on their hands when soap and water are not available. The FDA stopped short, however, of banning the use of three active ingredients—benzalkonium chloride, ethyl alcohol, and isopropyl alcohol—in hand-sanitizer products.
Instead, the agency will continue to seek additional safety and effectiveness data for those three chemicals to determine whether they are generally recognized as safe and effective for use in consumer hand sanitizers. The FDA proposed the rule in and requested data on the three ingredients at that time. Manufacturers are welcoming the additional time to generate the data.
Contact us to opt out anytime. Retailers have stopped selling hand sanitizers that contain triclosan, but a small number of products still contain benzethonium chloride, the agency says. Manufacturers who wish to continue making hand sanitizers that contain any of the 28 chemicals will need to have their products approved as new drugs by the FDA before they can be legally sold in the US. Contact the reporter. Scientists expect it can interact with many biological systems in complex ways, possibly over many years, making its footprint hard to map.
Last year, researchers followed 39 new mothers and their infants for 10 months and found higher levels of an antibacterial-resistant species in the guts of participants who used products with triclosan.
The FDA proposed banning the chemical in consumer products as early as but never finalized that rule. Some doctors already recommend avoiding products containing the compound. Contact Nidhi Subbaraman at nidhi. Triclosan does not provide any additional health benefits to the consumer, but it surely poses risks to human health. It is a known endocrine disruptor; it especially causes thyroid and reproductive hormones to fluctuate. Moreover, it is a skin irritant. Studies have raised that exposure to triclosan over time contributes to making bacteria unaffected by antibiotics.
This has resulted in contact dermatitis, and an increase in allergic reactions, especially in children. It has also been detected in human milk samples and in urine at high concentrations of those who regularly engage with this compound. Children exposed to antibacterial products at an early age have an increased chance of developing allergies, asthma, and eczema. Triclosan added to toothpaste has been shown to help prevent gingivitis. However, there's no evidence that antibacterial soaps and body washes containing triclosan provide any benefit over plain soap and water, according to the FDA.
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