They often enough get it from no-name vans that dig it out of dumpsters.

Walmart and Walgreens may not be good guys, but they do try to check and test merchandise.

My god. I thought our evolution helped us to die LESS often...

not listed on the ingredients is some shit they throw in to make you throw up.

Many with DT's have tried it in a pinch, but they regretted it.

"Hand sanitizer" was on the same shelf at twice the price with a little aloe in it. And it really stinks up the place.

"Made in the USA with US and foreign components"

Variety of brands say this.

It's alarming, because we know corporation use weasel words like this all the time, and the product is hardly made in the USA at all.

Includes brands: Blueman and Assured, which are currently on Amazon










https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitizers-methanol

I'm okay though! I haven't yet tried to add it to an aperitif!

I didn't order it, I think my Dad passed it along to me.

Perhaps I'll just leave it here as a deadly trap for convenience of any right-wingers who happen along and wish to internally cleanse according to the *president's instruction.

...don't throw them out.
They're not unsafe, given you don't drink them. (Which was the case in early reporting on this.)
Some products made in Mexico actually used methanol as the active agent. That's not allowed in the US.
The FDA & EPA registrations (because they make a health claim) require ethanol or isopropanol as the active ingredient in the formula. Substitutions are not allowed.
However,...
Ethanol as the active ingredient can be provided by a denatured version called SDA 3A. This is 95% ethanol, with 5% methanol added to make it non potable.
The personal care industries abandoned SDA 3A about 25 years ago, in favor of SDA 40B. 40B has no methanol. It has a tiny bit of tertiary butanol, which is an emetic, and denatonium (tradename bitrex) which is one of the most bitter substances on earth. (A perceptible bitterness at 10 parts per billion)
Personal care products had likely, around 1000 ppm of methanol back then. 1,000 ppm was considered WAY too high from a marketing stand point. And regulations would have required labeling as poison. So, they made the switch to a much more benign version.
I'd recommend only buying major label (Germ-X or Purel). But, if you have one of these, they're relatively safe, used as directed.
Since methanol evaporates even more quickly than ethanol, absorption into the skin is very minimal.
The body can handle tiny amounts of methanol, but not the amount one would get by ingesting a products that's 79% methanol.

Is going to get into your system in a volume high enough to make you sick when it's not concentrated and only applied to your skin? Methanol isn't, like, curare or something.'

And then say I wouldn't throw it out if I had some.

...I wasted my advice on you????

Guess Ill throw it out.... even if it has a nice USA flag on it, who's to say where the inggredients came from or what it really is... It was like $8 for about a half a gallon.

It's likely isopropanol.
US companies are not allowed to use methanol in hand sanitizer.
The registration formulary grants health claims based only on ethanol or isopropanol.
Not just company fines, but criminal prosecution is pursuable under the regulations.
Methanol is not that much cheaper than isopropanol to risk fines & jail time.
Your product is likely quite safe to use.
And, throwing out something with that level of alcohol means you're discarding a flammable.
You could pour it down the drain (with LOTS of chasing water), but you'd be pouring $8 down the drain.