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September 10, 2009
The CDC Now Accepts
Alcohol Free Instant Hand Sanitizers (SafeHands)
AS an Acceptable Alternative to Alcohol!
See http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm
Under "Contamination & Cleaning", you will see:
What if soap and water are not available and alcohol-based products are not allowed in my facility?
Though the scientific evidence is not as extensive as that on hand washing and alcohol-based sanitizers*, other hand sanitizers that do not contain alcohol may be useful for killing flu germs on hands.
“Allowing” staff and guests to use alcohol products when many suffer from the pain and dry hands (studies have shown that over 50% of the alcohol sanitizer users suffer side effects. This is a simple survey that you should take to validate this claim?) is a liability issues now that CDC has finally accepted an alternative. Offering alcohol only can be compared to offering latex gloves only for those who cannot come in contact with latex. SafeHands to alcohol is the very same solution as latex free gloves is to latex and NOW THE CDC RECOGNIZES THAT FACT by accepting proven alcohol free alternatives.
OFFERING ALCOHOL SANITIZER NO LONGER MEANS THAT YOU ARE IN COMPLIANCE UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE THAT EVERY PERSON IN YOUR FACILITY CAN USE ALCOHOL THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT SUFFERING FROM THE SIDE EFFECTS. THIS PUTS YOUR FACILITY AND BRAND AT RISK!
Your best insurance is offering solutions to ALL users and that simply CAN NOT accomplished by offering alcohol alone. There is no way around it and no way to defend it. SafeHands is that solution.
THE FDA
The FDA has strict product guidelines – is your hand sanitizer
Since September 1, 2009, the FDA has issued over 100 "FDA WARNING AND DEMAND NOTICES" against companies selling instant hand sanitizers that ARE MAKING FALSE CLAIMS about their product effectiveness, formula and killing of the H1N1 Swine flu. See the attached example of an FDA warning levied against Soapopular and despite that warning the company is still making this false claim!
The FDA codes mandate a maximum of .13% Benzalkonium Chloride active ingredient used in instant hand sanitizer (SafeHands not only uses the FDA’s approved concentration it conducted FDA approved studies to validate all formula science and claims made by the company) .
Yet, after receiving an “FDA WARNING AND DEMAND NOTICE” companies such as Deb continue to sell a .24% Benzalkonium based product, thus placing both distributors and end users at risk. According to the FDA guidelines, the following statement may be issued about SafeHands and the H1N1 (virus)
You are in fact placing your facility and brand at risk by offering products that are making these false claims
Purell
SafeHands is an accepted and safe solution to alcohol. With Purell now back ordered until March 2010 …. SafeHands is fully stocked and available to fill the void with an alternative that has been proven as superior to alcohol and now accepted as a solution by the CDC, in addition to the FDA.
WHY SAFEHANDS?
Now that you are up to date on the CDC and FDA’s true position about alcohol and alcohol free instant hand sanitizers. Why should you select SafeHands as your alternative to alcohol?
SafeHands developed formula over 10 years of research with Dr. David Dyer, PhDs, the countered leading scientist in benzalkonium based instant hands sanitizers (Dr. Dyer has been peer review published in over 12 nationally recognized in healthcare including the “Association Operating Room Nurses”, the “ Association Practitioners Infection Control>
SafeHands was founded by Dr. Jay Reubens, the inventor of the touch free dispenser and well recognized as a leader in developing hand hygiene products and education programs The Company is compromised of Doctors, scientists and other infection control
ALL SafeHands claims are backed by a decade of research and a team of high integrity experts and are accepted by the FDA and CDC. It is a company that will NEVER be cited for the numerous false claims other companies have and continue to make to market their products. This is a liability that these companies are knowingly shifted onto their buyers! This is public knowledge and the intent of this message is to give you an opportunity to make a decision based on informed consent.
SafeHands products are the most extensively tested instant hand sanitizer on the market today having been subjected to both third party independent human subject and microbiologic testing validating FDA and CDC compliant kill rates against MRSA, VRE, C difficile (in vegetative form)
SafeHands kills more germs than alcohol and other alcohol free products. It is non-toxic, non-flammable, non-skin drying and has a more effective germ kill than alcohol. Studies have proven that at least 50% of the users of alcohol cannot or will not use alcohol products on their hands.
By not offering an alternative to alcohol you are in fact placing you facility and brand name at risk. A liability you can eliminate by OFFERING SAFEHANDS. Now “America’s #1 Alternative to Alcohol Hand Sanitizers”
THE SWINE FLU
Here is what your experts at SafeHands recommend that pass along to your buyers about your choice of hand sanitizers and what you can legally say about the H1N1
The H1N1 swine flu virus has caused the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a "public health emergency." "This virus has, clearly, a pandemic potential," says Margaret Chan, director general of WHO. Why? The virulent new H1N1 swine flu strain spreads quickly and efficiently from human to human. It's "a completely novel virus," says the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). This latest variant is a mixture of human virus, bird virus, and pig viruses from all over the world. Experts say it's particularly worrisome because people are getting sick without any encounters with pigs. Even worse, young, healthy people (ages 20-40) are dying at a striking rate, a telltale sign of the worst flu epidemics. NO COMPANY, WHETHER IT IS PURELL, SAFEHANDS OR OTHERS CAN MAKE A KILL CLAIM AGAINST H1N1 OR NORWALK VIRUS UNDER THE STRICT REGULATION OF THE FDA!
Sanitize - To avoid infections, hand hygiene is the single best thing you can do (if you're going to go out into the world and interact with other human beings). The CDC estimates that 80 percent of all infections are spread by hands. If you can't wash your hands with soap and water regularly, try:
www.SafeHands4u.com
SafeHands is your first line of defense against potential hand-to-hand and/or hand-to-surface cross contamination infections. SafeHands formulation, which uses natural oils, kills more germs than alcohol and independent human subject tests and microbiological testing at California State University Fresno validating SafeHands formulation superior to alcohol based hand sanitizers due to the following, SafeHands is:
- Non-drying
- Non-toxic
- Non-flammable
- Kills germs longer
- Pleasant fragrance
- Skin soothing
- Can be used effectively 100's of times a day
- Is the only instant hand sanitizer that kills MRSA, VRE and C. difficile (vegetative state)
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