Washington, D.C. -- According to an article in bernama.com by Salmy Hashim, "The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is enforcing stricter requirements on rubber gloves for medical use beginning this month to minimise the spread of infectious diseases. The new ruling requires glove shipment to have fewer defective gloves for latex examination gloves and surgical gloves to protect medical personnel from infectious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B or C. Under the FDA ruling, gloves marketed in the US must meet the acceptable quality level (AQL) of 2.5 (percent of allowable defective gloves per 100 pieces) from the previous AQL 4.0 for examination gloves, and a more stringent AQL 1.5 from the previous 2.5 for surgical gloves. Director of the Malaysian Rubber Export Promotion Council in Washington, Dr Esah Yip, told Bernama here Wednesday that Malaysian rubber glove exporters should not be seriously concerned with the new ruling because most of them were already complying with the Standard Malaysian Glove (SMG) certification which required exporters to meet the AQL 2.5 barrier integrity for examination gloves. Malaysia is currently the leading exporter of medical rubber gloves to the US." ... -

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