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A school in Cork has told parents that their children will need to provide their own hand sanitizer starting Monday.
Schools across the country are expected to follow the lead of Christ King Girls Secondary on South Douglas Road after they made the decision after 52 more products were recalled.
The class will resume on Monday, but many venues are scrambling for new supply after the products were deemed potentially unsatisfactory.
Christ King sent a text message to parents and guardians tonight informing them that they will have to bring their own.
It was only a week ago that schools were offered the opportunity to close when a product range, ViraPro, was deemed potentially unsafe.
Principals, teachers, parents, and students are now reeling and fear the consequences of such a large number of products being declared potentially unsafe.
This is the complete statement of the Department of Education: “The Department of Education has written today, Thursday, October 29, to all schools to inform them of the changes to the approved list of products in the PPE acquisition agreement from the Education Sector, and the steps they can take to acquire new stock if necessary.
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“The vendors in the agreement are committed to quickly processing and delivering orders to assist schools.
“Following instructions from the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine Affairs to stop using all ViraPro products on Friday, October 23, the Department of Education immediately began a review of the biocides included in the PPE procurement agreement from the Education Sector.
“The review has been done in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, which is Ireland’s regulator for biocides.
“The Department is removing 43 biocides and 9 other products from the approved list for schools because it has not been possible to satisfactorily confirm their registration status as part of the review.
“These products will not be included on our approved list for schools until their registration status has been confirmed.
“The Department has no evidence that these products are unsafe.
“As part of the procurement process for the Education Sector PPE Acquisition Agreement in June and July, suppliers were required to confirm that their products were compliant with regulations and provide documentation, they were required to provide information on their current range of products live instead. future versions and give examples of contracts in the last two years that included supply to the Irish public sector.
“As part of the review process in recent days, all the biocides included in the EPI agreement have been verified, both new and existing elements.
“This involved the review of 172 articles from 14 suppliers.
“The Department of Education has decided to add a new supplier that responded to the tender announcement in June and has now confirmed that it has the required biocide registrations and 23 new products to the deal.
“The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine and the Educational Procurement Service are engaging directly with interested suppliers regarding the status of these products and these products may be reinstated to the agreement at a later date.
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