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By David Rieser and Maureen O'Dea Brill of K&L Gates

U.S. Environment, Land, and Natural Resources Alert

When COVID-19 hit, many companies with commercial connections to alcohol wanted to make hand sanitizer. The United States Food and Drug Administration relaxed its regulatory rules and companies began manufacturing a literal flood of hand sanitizer in order to meet the demand for clean hands. Now that the epidemic has abated and the demand for precautionary protections has fallen, a number of companies are stuck with significant quantities of hand sanitizer and its fundamental raw material, ethyl alcohol or ethanol.

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