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Winter bugs: Hand sanitisers

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Do They Test for Everything?

The CTPA, the Cosmetic Toiletry and Perfumes Association. They take a standard number of microbes back to your viruses, and then they look to see how effective it is killing against them. But there's other ones that maybe are missing from those standard tests that they do,. That might actually be the ones causing cold and flu symptoms. So not only are we going to be left with a little bit of bacteria on the hands, you might be left with another type of bacteria. And that's the problem. You might get rid of one particular type, but you've left with something else.

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