Texas School District Takes Proactive Stance, Removes Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer

Amidst reports of teens drinking alcohol-based hand sanitizer to get drunk, officials with the West Independent School District in Waco, Texas, opted to be proactive and remove the products from the district's schools, according to a report today on the web site of ABC affiliate KXXV-TV 25.

Reports about school officials making decisions identical to the one made in Waco are surfacing more frequently than ever before as people become more aware of the dangers of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Only two days ago on this blog, I reported that a school district in Nova Scotia had banned alcohol-based hand sanitizer from their schools.

What should a school district use as a replacement? Alcohol-Free Foam Hand Sanitizer from CLEANpHIRST™.

Alcohol-Free Foam Hand Sanitizer is as an extremely-safe, effective, non-irritating, non-flammable, non-staining alternative to alcohol-based hand sanitizers. Not only does it kill well beyond the level of the leading alcohol-based hand sanitizers on the market (i.e., 99.999 percent kill rate against Staphylococcus aureus), but it’s also the only formula on the market proven effective against both strains of the Norovirus. In addition, the active ingredient in Alcohol-Free Foam Hand Sanitizer, benzalkonium chloride (BZK), has been proven effective against H1N1 (a.k.a.,”Swine Flu”) in a scientific study conducted two years ago.

Unlike other hand sanitizer products containing BZK, Alcohol-Free Foam Hand Sanitizer maximizes its effectiveness via the use of a unique surfactant package that allows the active ingredient to penetrate cell walls at a higher rate. Best of all, it does so without alcohol, an ingredient that dries out the skin and can damage the skin with repeated use.

If you attend or work at a school where alcohol-based hand sanitizer is still used, tell the people who make purchasing decisions at your school to contact CLEANpHIRST™ for more information about Alcohol-Free Foam Hand Sanitizer.