FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective

Posted by Southron on Friday September 02, 2016 @11:40AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/fda-bans-antibacterial-soaps-no-scientific-evidence-theyre-safe-effective/

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Re:FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” th... by sctb on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:51PM (#12414388)

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12413388.

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Re:FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” th... by ythl on Friday September 02, 2016 @11:54AM (#12413861)

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12413388?

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Re:FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” th... by paulpauper on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:26PM (#12414166)

that seems to happen a lot. probably because not everyone who reads HN is online at once

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Re:FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” th... by mgrpowers on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:36PM (#12414279)

Nice job defusing.

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Re:FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” th... by JadeNB on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:54PM (#12414411)

The same underlying story, obviously, but I'd rather hear from Ars Technica than NBC News (and possibly some people feel the other way), so it seems worth having both.

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