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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (www.ksnblocal4.com)
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Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.

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[-] CombatWombat@feddit.online 73 points 1 week ago

I guess America is truly great now that you need to check for recalls before washing your hands with hand soap you bought at a grocery store lest you get a brain infection

The other recalled soaps are potentially contaminated with several types of Pseudomonas and Serratia bacteria, which are known to be resistant to antibiotics and can cause complications including blood infections, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, eye infections, brain infections, bone infections and heart infections.

[-] Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago

All the magats don’t seem to mind the constant biological warfare since their child rapist king was a cunt to immigrants again

[-] remon@ani.social 16 points 1 week ago

Fucking magats, how do they work?

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

They don't.

[-] DillDough@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

They are the largest group receiving welfare benefits, and maga states are overwhelmingly welfare states while many of the other states are donor states, giving far more than they take in taxes...so magats don't work.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mostly they are welfare queens.

No, like actual welfare queens, not the racist dog whistle kind that are largely imaginary.

[-] huppakee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I really thought they'd be tired of winning by now

[-] kayohtie@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

Oh no don't worry, it's worse than that: you have to check the soap dispenser at the grocery bathroom to make sure it wasn't recalled.

[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 58 points 1 week ago

Hello America! This week, [spins wheel] SOAP is contaminated with [spins wheel] DEADLY BACTERIA!

This is a shameless rip off of that tweet by this person on that other site which I think of every time something like this drops.

[-] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Last week was tofu and ink. Feel so frazzled, but really it's just project 2025 again.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 week ago

Stop using antibacterial soap. Just using soap washes the bacteria off your skin and down the sink. We don't need to try to kill them and encourage resistant strains.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

I think the US has mostly phased out antibacterial soap. The FDA rescinded its authorization of triclosan and a bunch of other similar antibacterial ingredients in 2016 and prohibited the marketing of antibacterial soaps and body washes with those ingredients as antiseptic or antibacterial.

This particular contamination of these 6 recalled products are hand soaps that aren't antibacterial.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 12 points 1 week ago

No, it's still widely available. I have to have this argument with my wife on a regular basis.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Huh, interesting. What brands are still marketing themselves as antibacterial soap, and what are their active ingredients?

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 9 points 1 week ago

Pretty much every hand soap brand has antibacterial options. Softsoap, Dial, Suave, Dove, etc.

Benzalkoniun Chloride seems to be the anti-bacterial agent used now.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago

I only use it for my menstrual cup

[-] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 6 points 1 week ago

Can't you just boil it? That's safer than antibiotics

[-] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Mash them, put them in a stew.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Not every time I change it

[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Intercon Chemical Co. CEO

[-] remon@ani.social 28 points 1 week ago

Destroys 99% of bacteria ... but delivers 1%!

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago

And that 1% is a real doozy.

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

If you get 1% of bacteria you only get 1% of the disease.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

So, wait.

In Donald's America... even soap isn't trustworthy anymore?

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The fucking soap is contaminated now? WTF bro

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Is there a better article than this? The list of recalled soaps feels incomplete and I'm not sure whether that was a formatting decision or a "let's pump this fda press release through an llm" decision.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

A stable genius once suggested (in a stable and genius-like manner) to inject bleach...

So, and hear me out here, instead of using soap to wash the outside why don't you guys just inject bleach to wash from the inside out?
Genius move, or what? {taps head}

[-] Zier@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

And if the bleach does does not work, you can always shine a very, very bright light up your bum to disinfect things. People are sayin', lots of people, very good people, the bEST people.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

anti biotic resistant bacteria I understand as (god given power of) evolution. Soap resistant bacteria?????? That's definitely "no longer chosen people" stuff right there.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I never understood the whole "bacteria can't develop resistance to soap" argument. All multi-cellular life that currently exists and that can handle soap came from single-celled life that at some point developed the ability to survive contact with soap. And while soap might have been an extreme pressure, even extreme pressures can lead to adaptations. Like there are trees that not only are fine with forest fires but even depend on them to thrive, so even fire isn't too big of a pressure for life to adapt to.

We are a species that consumes alcohol for fun. Hell, we consume hot peppers, a fruit specifically evolved to discourage mammals from eating it by causing extreme discomfort, also for fun. Life, ah, finds a way.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, detergent has the same effects on your cells as it does bacterial cells. The main way soap works is by dissolving the lipid bilayer of your epidermal cells and allowing them to be washed away, along with anything stuck to them, like dirt. In order to survive in soap, the bacteria would need to survive in basic environments and survive contact with (primarily) sodium stearate. I don't know precisely how that develops, but it isn't like "magically all multicellular life is immune to the effects of sodium stearate on the lipid bilayer"

[-] myyass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And now on this years of the Bingo Card of Recalls! I'm tired.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Ironic

[-] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Superbug!

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Imagine washing your hands thinking you're all clean when in fact your hands just rubbed some nasty shit all over them.

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