HEALTH CARE WORKERS SKEPTICAL OF NEW LATEX GLOVE CLEARED BY FDA

As the Food and Drug Administration pitched its approval of a new type of latex glove as a safer alternative for health care workers with sensitivity to traditional latex, a nonprofit advocacy group and some in the health care worker community were quick to express skepticism. A labor source questioned if the benefits of the gayule latex used in the glove outweigh the potential for continued allergic risks to health care workers and their latex-sensitive patients. The source added that if the FDA had followed the precautionary principle, such a product would not have been cleared until long-te