Forbes estimates that the 74-year-old family-owned business in Ohio that makes Purell, Gojo Industries, is 100% owned by the Kanfer family and is worth at least $1 billion
Rows of empty shelves, which normally hold hand sanitizer, in a supermarket in New York on March 4, 2020.The spectacle is all the more fantastic because it’s not at all clear that Purell, or any other hand sanitizer, can keep people safe. Hand sanitizer is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and the agency has strict rules about promoting the use of these products against viruses or mentioning specific organisms by name.
“[The] FDA is currently not aware of any adequate and well-controlled studies demonstrating that killing or decreasing the number of bacteria or viruses on the skin by a certain magnitude produces a corresponding clinical reduction in infection or disease caused by such bacteria or virus,” the letter stated. Gojo, in response to the letter,Gojo was founded in 1946 by Goldie and Jerry Lippman.
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