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Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can · Sep 2020
At-a-glance - Increases in exposure calls related to selected cleaners and disinfectants at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: data from Canadian poison centres.
- Abdool Yasseen Iii, Deborah Weiss, Sandy Remer, Nina Dobbin, Morgan MacNeill, Bojana Bogeljic, Dennis Leong, Victoria Wan, Laurie Mosher, Guillaume Bélair, Margaret Thompson, Brooke Button, James Hardy, Shahid Perwaiz, Alysyn Smith, and Richard Wootton.
- Chemical Emergency Management and Toxicovigilance Division Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2020 Sep 23; 41 (1).
AbstractLittle is known about the use or misuse of cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic. We compiled data from January to June in 2019 and 2020 from Canadian poison centres, and report on calls regarding selected cleaning products and present year-over-year percentage change. There were 3408 (42%) calls related to bleaches; 2015 (25%) to hand sanitizers; 1667 (21%) to disinfectants; 949 (12%) to chlorine gas; and 148 (2%) to chloramine gas. An increase in calls occurred in conjunction with the onset of COVID-19, with the largest increase occurring in March. Timely access to Canadian poison centre data facilitated early communication of safety messaging for dissemination to the public.
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