Could Your Disposable Gloves Be Making You Sick?
Single-use, nitrile gloves are essential for the cultivation sector. Because they are required and ordered in bulk time and time again, employees typically think nothing of opening a freshly sealed box full of clean, toxin- and pathogen-free gloves. Most assume when a new box is opened for the first time, the product within will be truly food-safe and free of any materials or organisms that could cause cross-contamination. But what if this assumption is inaccurate? At Eagle Protect, our proprietary testing revealed there may indeed be a cross-contamination risk. More than fifteen years ago in New Zealand, I founded a glove supply and distribution company that expanded to the United States in 2016. Having visited countless manufacturing facilities in southeast Asia and witnessing firsthand the unsanitary conditions in many supposedly sterile factories, we committed ourselves to supply products of the highest production standards. A big part of this commitment included a budget for ong...