The hand sanitizer company said it has begun updating information on its website in order to avoid legal action.
hand sanitizer said it will comply with a warning letter issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the company’s unproven claims that its products can prevent viruses like Ebola, the norovirus and influenza., threatened legal action against Purell’s maker, Gojo Industries, should it not immediately correct statements about its products on the company’s website and social media accounts, which the FDA said violate sections of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
In a Frequently Asked Questions section on Purell’s website, the company suggested that the Ebola virus could be killed by Purell because alcohol is known to kill enveloped viruses like it, though the text also noted that “we are not aware of any hand sanitizers that have been tested against Ebola viruses,” according to the FDA’s letter.states that alcohol-based hand
Peter Gulick, an infectious disease specialist at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine,that the alcohol in hand sanitizers is strong enough to handle enveloped viruses like the flu, but “the FDA wants to be really certain and really careful of how [products] word things.”
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