A sample survey of commercially available dry hand washing found that some products contained benzene, a possible carcinogen.
During the outbreak, alcohol-based hand cleansing gels, commonly known as “dry hands,” were often out of stock, and certain cold brands appeared on the market to meet consumer demand. Valisure, an online drug board headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, released its latest test report, which found that a sample of commercially available dry hand gels contained potentially carcinogenic benzene, a chemical that, like asbestos ( asbestos), as hazardous to human health, may cause cancer.
According to Velisol’s test report, the results found that some dry hand wash contained benzene index exceeded the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety limits by up to eight times.
The results of the test report have been verified by Yale University’s Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center and Boston Analytics.
In a sample of 260 bottles of hand sanitizers from 168 brands sold in mass merchandisers, supermarkets and online stores across the United States, Velisol found that 44 bottles of hand sanitizers contained benzene, accounting for 17 percent of the total, with the highest benzene concentration of 16 ppm (parts per million) in an eight-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer from artnaturals.
Velisol announced that the 10 dry hand wash brands containing the highest benzene include: artnaturals, Scentsational, huangjisoo, TrueWash, The Crème Shop, Star Wars Mandalorian, Body Prescriptions, Born Basic, beauty concepts, and PureLogic.
Velisol wrote to the FDA that dry hand washing is a commercially available product widely used to combat the spread of the New Coronavirus (Chinese Communist virus) and is often used by adults and children in large quantities, but the ingredients were found to contain benzene, which has been proven to be a human carcinogen, and a variety of other contaminants, “so the results are particularly worrisome “.
Benzene is a liquid chemical that is usually colorless, but may appear yellowish at room temperature; in the natural environment, benzene exists in volcanoes and can appear after forest fires, but some manufacturers use benzene to make cleaners, dyes, lubricants and rubber products.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) points out that human exposure to large amounts of benzene may lead to abnormal cellular function, such as the bone marrow can not produce enough red blood cells, or the immune system because of damage and loss of white blood cells.
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