{"id":41987,"date":"2020-09-08T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-rwanda-fda-bans-use-of-purell-instant-guard-hand-sanitizers\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T08:03:04","slug":"covid-19-rwanda-fda-bans-use-of-purell-instant-guard-hand-sanitizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-rwanda-fda-bans-use-of-purell-instant-guard-hand-sanitizers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Rwanda FDA bans use of Purell-instant, Guard- hand sanitizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These drugs have been discontinued under the guidelines that hand sanitizers should contain ethanol alcohol at a rate of between 70% and 80% or isopropyl alcohol at 75%.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda FDA said that based on laboratory tests conducted by the agency, it was found that the Guard-Hands sanitizer (30ml) and the purell-instant hand sanitizer (60ml) did not meet the requirements and thus \u2018the drugs were discontinued\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda FDA warns people that methanol is not used in the manufacture of hand sanitizers because it is used as pesticide and has a detrimental effect on health. The agency requires users of hand sanitizers to check the information on the bottle in which the drug is purchased.<\/p>\n<p>These guidelines are 70% to 80% ethanol or 75% isopropyl and other important ones include glyceline and hydrogen peroxide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36705 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/purull_instant_hand_sanitizer_umuti_usukura_intoki_wahagaritswe_na_rwanda_fda-64372.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36706 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/guard_hand_sanitizer_umuti_usukura_intoki_wahagaritswe_na_rwanda_fda-12351.jpg\" alt=\"Guard-Hands sanitizer and the purell-instant hand sanitizer did not meet the requirements and thus were discontinued.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (Rwanda FDA) has banned the use, sale and distribution of Purell- instant hand sanitizer (60ml) manufactured by BELLA Limited and Guard- hands sanitizers (30ml) manufactured by KVMS Co ltd, effective, August 4, 2020 .<\/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-41987","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\/41987","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=41987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41987"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41987"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}