In Germany, do hand disinfectants for hygienic and surgical hand disinfection have to be approved as medicinal products or may biocidal products also be used?

In the European Economic Area – including Germany – hand disinfectants containing 2-propanol that have not been approved as medicinal products by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, BfArM) may...
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