American Pharmaceutical Company Valisure, which is engaged in testing medical drugs on the market, found that some of the disinfectants for hands contain benzene – a substance causing cancer, Bloomberg writes.
Benzole was found in the means that went to the market after the main sanitizers disappeared from the sale at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Agency writes.
Valisure checked 260 bottles of 168 brands and found that 17% contain a determined level of benzene. At 21 bottles (8%) were benzene in the volume of more than two parts per million – this is the temporary limit that the management of sanitary surveillance of food quality and medicines (FDA) has set for liquid disinfectants for hands.
Most of the disinfectants containing a high level of benzene, was produced in China or USA.
The fact that benzene causes cancer, the US Department of Health and Social Services reported. The division of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the study of cancer refers it to substances with the highest risk on a par with asbestos.