Here are five key notes on FDA’s call for more information, and the support it is receiving:
1. Healthcare antiseptics include handwashes, rubs and patient preoperative skin preparations, including pre-injection preparations.
2. Alcohol and iodines are the common active ingredients in these antiseptics.
3. Data raises concerns surrounding the effects of human exposure to some healthcare antiseptic ingredients, according to an FDA release.
4. The FDA is not calling for any products to be removed from the market, but instead is calling for a long-term study on the effects of daily exposure to the antiseptics.
5. SHEA and APIC note healthcare-associated infections are associated with 75,000 American deaths annually.
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