The company that makes Lysol is urging customers not to consume its cleaning products after President Trump suggested the possibility of injecting disinfectants to protect people from coronavirus.
Reckitt Benckiser , a British company, warned Friday that human consumption of disinfectant products is dangerous warned. It issued the statement following"recent speculation and social media activity.""As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body ," the company said in a statement.
I mean we know the answer to this one," he said on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Thursday."I think everybody would know that that would be dangerous and counter-productive."Ingesting or injecting disinfectants is dangerous, according to a medical expert employed by the Trump administration. Food and Drug Administration chief Dr. Stephen Hahn told CNN's Anderson Cooper,"I certainly wouldn't recommend the internal ingestion of a disinfectant.
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