6 hand sanitizers for kids recalled. There’s a reason kids might eat or drink them
Six Smart Care hand sanitizers with packaging marketed toward kids got recalled Thursday because the pouches “resemble food and drink container pouches.”
That’s from the headline of a recall notice by distributor Ashtel Studios posted to the FDA website Friday afternoon.
The FDA feels the same way about the 0.84-ounce pouches, as it said in its explanation for why these sanitizers are on the agency’s Do Not Use list of hand sanitizers: Smart Care’s Barbie Hand Sanitizer; Hot Wheels Hand Sanitizer; Minions Hand Sanitizer; Paw Patrol Hand Sanitizer; JoJo Siwa Dreamer Hand Sanitizer; and Trolls World Tour Hand Sanitizer.
Unlike its issues with other hand sanitizers on the 203-product long list, the FDA claimed no problem with the actual hand sanitizer. It’s the combination of the pouches, kids likely being given the hand sanitizer as they head back to schools and children’s carelessness or curiosity, despite the packaging warning, “Do Not Eat.”
The FDA said, “Hand sanitizer products packaged in containers resembling food pouches commonly used for children’s applesauce and other pureed foods that present increased risk of accidental ingestion by children.”
And the hand sanitizer fatalities the FDA knows about come from people drinking them.
An Ashtel spokesman told the Herald that the company took all of these products off the shelves in August when a parent brought up the potential problem. The FDA didn’t indicate that in its product status notation after adding the Smart Care sanitizers to the Do Not Use list on Sept. 24.
This story was originally published October 1, 2020 at 6:28 AM with the headline "6 hand sanitizers for kids recalled. There’s a reason kids might eat or drink them."
