this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The company is not putting brake cleaner into hand sanitizer.

They are using some equipment to make both products, which creates the possibility of cross contamination.

Not good or safe practices, but not spiking hand sanitizer with nasty stuff on purpose, as the title suggests.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla 14 points 1 year ago

Still pretty shitty to do, considering they've already been warned about it and should know better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I usually hate clickbait word games like that, too, but this particular situation is serious enough that I don’t mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gross negligence counts as intent IMHO

Ain't there are rules in place if products will be sold to a normie consumer ?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Name and shame:
Brenntag Great Lakes, LLC, in Wisconsin.

Fuck this shit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The letter, which redacted the name of the hand sanitizer…

For fucks sake. Grow a spine and TELL US THE NAME OF THE PRODUCT.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This is a huge company that makes many chemicals from a quick search.

Here is their sell sheet for their hand sanitizer:

https://na.brenntag.com/hii/nam/en/social/handsanitizer/twitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The free market, let companies and consumers do what they want! /s