Washignton County Sheriff's Department Making Hand Sanitizer

(Potosi, MO) Members of the Washington County Sheriff's Department are making hand sanitizer and are giving it to those in need. Sheriff Zach Jacobsen says when he began looking for supplies of hand sanitizer, he noticed the shortage and wondered what other emergency repsonders, the elderly, and other high risk people were doing to get theirs. Jacobsen explains that's when he saw a sanitizer recipe that's FDA and World Health Organizaion approved. He adds they decided to make their own and give some of it those in need.

Jacobsen says you can call his office at 573-438-5478, extension 1.