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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidelines on hand hygiene in health-care settings adding recommendations about the use of alcohol-based products. The guidelines recognize that health-care workers are unable to wash their hands with soap and water as often as recommended and that under certain circumstances the use of alcohol-based products is an adequate substitute for hand washing.
Sent yesterday afternoon:
TO: All FDA Employees
FROM: Deputy Commissioner
SUBJECT: De-layering of the Office of the Commissioner
Washington (October 28) - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) applauded President Bush for signing into law the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 and the Community Health Centers Safety Net bill.