Monday, October 26, 2009

Hand sanitizer in short

From the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting in April this year, there were nearly 400,000 people all around the world got swine flu and more than 4,700 people died because of sick(CNN Money.com). More and more people begin to feel the seriously pandemic. At this time, the demand of hand sanitizer rise fastly. Many area in the United States can not get enough hand sanitizer supply. Market research company estimated that about 3 million kilograms of hand sanitizer were shipped in the third querter which is 3 times more than last year (CNN Money.com). This emergancy pandemic makes every people get in hurry. The demand is higher than supply. But, as the antiseptic companies, they think that the higher demand is temporary. They hired additional workers to help the increase output temporary. After this bad flu season, every thing will go back. They do not think it is necessary to change the produce plan of the whole company and increase the tremendous products. That may be increase the cost of inventory.
Actrually, hand sanitizer can not instead of soup and sink. People use hand sanitizer usually because people cannot get hands wash. In order to increase the immunity system, we should wash hands as much as possible, especially after using public computer in library.