This second McGuireWoods alert discussing regulation of hand sanitizer manufacture and distribution addresses new considerations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in a June 2020 update to its March 2020...more
Key Takeaways: • What Happened: FDA updated its temporary hand sanitizer production policies to permit use of fuel- or technical-grade ethanol that contains certain impurities up to given limits. • Who’s Impacted:...more
On April 15, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its three hand sanitizer guidance documents to address the use of fuel- and technical-grade ethanol as an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in hand...more
On March 26, 2015, a group of ethanol and agricultural groups sent a letter (the industry letter) to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug...more