A public warning and withdrawal notice about a useless and potential dangerous hand sanitiser should have been issued a week ago, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue told the Dail. Meanwhile Ireland has known for a month that the stock of hand sanitiser sent here had failed tests in Denmark, he revealed. It would have been “appropriate” for the Government to have issued a public notice about the useless and “potentially dangerous hand sanitiser when lab tests at the Department’s own facility at Backweston had confirmed contamination with methanol in consignments in Ireland a week ago, Minister McConalogue told the Dail. Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy said the recall of ViraPro sanitiser had caused further chaos in many schools that are already struggling to keep their doors open. He said he was disappointed that the Minister had left it to the last Government slot of the week to respond.

Source: Irish Independent October 23, 2020 19:30 UTC