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Understanding the Risks Associated with Hand Sanitizer Refilling
2/1/2021
By Antonio Quiñones-Rivera, Ph.D.
Product Safety and Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Also By Chip Manuel, Ph.D.
Food Safety Science Advisor, GOJO Industries
Imagine you are at a breakfast buffet at a hotel (the pandemic is over), and you see a simple glass bottle of milk for your use, with no markings. You pour some milk on your cereal and splash a bit into your coffee. Later in the day, you learn that each morning the serving staff 'tops off' that bottle with milk from other containers, without ever emptying it or washing it. Over the course of weeks, with customers taking many, many milk servings from that bottle, the staff kept topping it off. How would you feel about the milk that you had been served that morning? And the next morning, would you again put milk from that bottle on your cereal?
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