THE US Food and Drug Administration has urged manufacturers of hand sanitisers to make the products taste worse.
More than 1,500 additional manufacturers have registered with the FDA to produce hand sanitiser, but "with this increased supply comes our continued mission to ensure safety of these products.
"It is important that hand sanitisers be manufactured in a way that makes them unpalatable to people," the FDA said, citing a 79% increase in calls to the US National Poison Data System relating to ingestion of the products.
One instance saw a 13-year-old drinking hand sanitiser which had been packaged in a liquor bottle from a distiller, which was "reported to taste like normal drinking alcohol".
PERHAPS-misguided efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19 in Spain have environmental groups up in arms, after authorities sprayed a local beach in Zahara de los Atunes with bleach.
The radical measure was part of preparations to reduce strict lockdown measures, but has attracted strong criticism particularly from birdlovers who had seen an increase in species on the beach due to having less people around.
"The beach is a living ecosystem...and when you spray it down with bleach you're killing everything you come across," said one outraged local.
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