Municipality requests a brewing company to use alcohol for disinfectant Fukui New Corona April 22 17:40
Amid the shortage of alcoholic disinfectants throughout the country, Eiheiji Town in Fukui Prefecture asked a long-established local sake brewer to produce alcohol that can be used as an antiseptic. The produced alcohol is purchased by the town and distributed to medical sites, which means that this is the first such initiative by the local government in Japan.
In the nation's shortage of alcohol disinfectants, the government last month approved the use of alcohol-rich alcohol as a disinfectant as a special case.
In response, Mayor Kawai of the Eiheiji town handed over a document requesting the production of alcohol that can be used as a disinfectant to the president of the long-established sake brewing company, Kuroryu Sake Brewery, Naoto Mizuno.
According to a brewing company, it can produce alcohol with a concentration of 70 to 80 degrees as early as the middle of next month, so the town will purchase it and give it priority to medical and nursing care sites in the town. .
According to the town, it is the first time in the whole country that the local government has requested a brewing company to produce and supply alcohol.
“I want to contribute to everyone as much as I can as a local sake brewery,” said President Mizuno of Kuroryu Sake Brewery.