The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an import alert on alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico amid serious safety concerns. “Under the import alert, alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico offered for import are subject to heightened FDA scrutiny, and FDA staff may detain the shipment,” a statement from the agency posted on Tuesday reads. “As part of their entry review, FDA staff will consider any specific evidence offered by importers or manufacturers that the hand sanitizers were manufactured according to U.S. current good manufacturing practice requirements.” The FDA announced the import alert after an analysis on hand sanitizers from Mexico concluded 84 percent of samples analyzed by the agency from April Through December weren’t in compliance with the agency’s regulations. “More than half of the samples were found to contain toxic ingredients, including methanol and/or 1-propanol, at dangerous levels,” the FDA stated. The FDA has since updated a list of hand sanitizers …