Isn’t this the function of a free market? This is none of the business of the federal government.
Yep . . . “antibacterials” is right there in our Constitution, along with “penumbra”, “privacy”, and “1 gallon per flush.” Go look.
Half of all chicken in the UK now has antibiotic resistant
E coli.
Death is coming, engineered by Islam and Obama
and the lying, self-EXEMPT GOP.
it probably protects against Zika and they want to make sure we all have tiny heads. Voting for Hillary makes sense when you have a tiny head
Say goodbye to those “antibacterial” soaps. The Food and Drug Administration says they do little or nothing to make soap work any better and said the industry has failed to prove they’re safe.
Does this apply to dentists, surgeons, and other medical personnel?
WAY TO GO MAGGIE:
Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur while taking benzalkonium chloride topical: Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue).
(1) Shower with bacterial soap before bedtime tonight.
(2) Shower with bacterial soap tomorrow morning.
(3) Check in at Out Patient Desk at 7 AM tomorrow morning.
The government tells us to change our clocks twice a year, thus increasing heart attacks and strokes, accident fatalities,an increase of cortisol in the bodies causing obesity, and makes little children go to school in the dark when they should be in bed. Any nation of sheep that has put up with these ridiculous intrusions into their lives for over 50 years deserves being led through life by government bureaucrats who control virtually everything from how to flush our toilets to how much salt can be in our food. Land of the free? The Founders would be horrified.
My friend that is a Dr. Told me last year this was coming. He also said at a conference they told him that many of the antibiotics that they have been giving are not working great anymore. People are building a tolerance to them. Eventually, there are going to be a great many people die of things that we used to give antibiotics for but they will fail. There hasn’t been a new good antibiotic in a long time.
A friend of mine is a Canadian importer of a German antiseptic lotion used in hospitals. He’s said the same thing about all the various consumer hand sanitizers on the market, namely that they’re a waste of money. The principal active ingredient in the product he imports is Isopropyl Alcohol in a concentration that does kill bacteria and even some viruses (tested successfully against HIV). And it smells like it. The last time I checked the product is not FDA approved (maybe because of the years and enormous expense in gaining approvals) and unavailable in the United States. It’s annoying that the FDA focuses its attention on banning what they perceive as ineffective products while being so slow on the uptake of new and effective ones that are commonplace elsewhere.
Which actually makes more sense than people think. I remember in high school biology class that plain old liquid Ivory soap (which had just become available on the market at the time) was extremely effective in killing harmful bacteria anyway.
The bottom line is more complex.
1) Ordinary soap will remove about 60% of skin bacteria, mostly by removing the medium in which it lives: contamination, greases and oils including skin oil, and skin crevices.
2) Antibacterial soap is only marginally better, but importantly, some of the more dangerous bacteria are resistant to it. So after washing, your hands might become even more septic.
3) One of the nastier bacteria, Clostridium difficile, is even resistant to hand washing detergent as well as alcohol based dessication.
I have used anti-bacterial soap for years without any ill effects. I am grateful to the government for taking them away before I suffered any damage to my hands. I am truly one of the fortunate ones.
The only ones they’re ordering removed are the ones that don’t actually kill bacteria. Seems fine to me, unless you really like having completely ineffective mislabeled products available for purchase.