Скачать или смотреть The Glove Food Safety Gap

Eagle Protect's CEO and Founder, Steve Ardagh, explains the Glove Food Safety Gap at the 2022 Food Safety Summit in Chicago.

The requirement for the FDA’s (21 CFR 177) glove compliance for food handling is limited, and commonly not fully understood. The factory infrequently completes a single test, simply measuring the migration of gross extractable chemicals. After testing is passed, glove purchasers must trust the factory to continue manufacturing gloves to that specification - but this can be easily abused. Astonishingly, the FDA Food Compliance testing does not measure glove cleanliness, pathogen load or the number of glove failures (holes).

On the other hand, the FDA’s Current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) states that gloves handling food need to be clean, sanitary and intact. This disharmony or chasm between the GMP and FDA’s glove food compliance is a potentially dangerous Food Safety Gap, and one that Eagle Protect is ensuring against by enhanced preventive control testing.

Glove contamination results from largely unregulated production and manufacturing, using putrid water sources, with limited and infrequent compliance testing on import. To safeguard your business, Eagle is launching its multi-layered proprietary glove testing program, Delta Zero (patent pending), ensuring Eagle gloves adhere to the highest level of consistent glove safety and performance, and are absent of unsafe chemicals, toxins and microbial contaminants.

Eagle's proprietary glove analysis program, Delta Zero, is a way for companies to mitigate the risks of glove contamination.