{"id":41633,"date":"2020-07-03T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T08:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kvm-co-ltd-hand-sanitizer-banned-from-rwanda-market-41633\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T08:58:47","slug":"kvm-co-ltd-hand-sanitizer-banned-from-rwanda-market-41633","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kvm-co-ltd-hand-sanitizer-banned-from-rwanda-market-41633\/","title":{"rendered":"KVM Co Ltd hand sanitizer banned from Rwanda market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from Rwanda FDA said the decision was based on the fact that the hand sanitizer showed that it contained 99% methanol yet it doesn\u2019t kill viruses or bacteria but it damages the skin and respiratory tract when inhaled and can burn and cause fire at any slight mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The statement says that in the manufacturing of the said hand sanitizer, they use alcohol such as isopropyl or ethanol. The ethanol content should be between 70-80% and the isopropyl content at 75% in addition to other components including hydrogen peroxide and glycerin. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36076 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eb5pt2hxsaaqyvu-6e026.jpg\" alt=\"KVM Co Ltd hand sanitizer banned from Rwanda market\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Food and Drug Administration, Rwanda FDA, has banned on market hand sanitizer processed by KVM Co LTD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41633"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41633"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}