New gloves are icer and cleaner. Is it worth the risk to reuse them?
Tr@ce gloves both new and reprocessed, are cleaner than new conventional disposable exam gloves. They are also much safer because of individual testing for pin holes that is not done by any other supplier. From January 2009 the FDA`s standard for pinholes has been reduced from an AQL of 4 to 2.5, emphasizing the importance that is attached to this aspect. Conventional single-use gloves, while regulated by the FDA for stains, do not actually have to conform to any cleanliness or bioburden specification. Except for some of the leading glove makers, that self-assess the bioburden level of risk in accordance with FDA guidelines, almost all the other single-use exam gloves present on the market do not have any microbiological contamination QA control and represent a real risk of cross-contamination. In 1999, the FDA aware of the potential quality and risk issues on medical glove proposed .the reclassification of surgeon’s and patient examination gloves from Class I to Class II, because gene
