Claim: Alcohol-based hand sanitizers increase alcohol levels in the blood.
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Verdict: there is no evidence to support this claim. according to who, the alcohol found in the blood after the use of alcohol-based sanitizers is of negligible levels. we also found a study published in the american journal of emergency medicine which said, "the results of this study demonstrate that use of ethanol-based hand sanitizers does not raise serum blood ethanol levels." the participants applied 5 ml of sanitizers to both hands d 50 times over 4 hours.
Organisation: First Check
Author: Varadarajan Ananthakrishnan
Date published: 2020-09-02T23:40:59