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Infection Prevention
Do Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers Pose a Fire Hazard?
Dan Mayworm

Dan Mayworm The CDC may have tripped the momentum of its own call for a switch to alcohol-based hand sanitizers in healthcare - with two paragraphs on page 13 of its highly touted, 50-page Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings that mentions that the alcohol-based gels, foams and liquids are hazardous materials.

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