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FDA Public Health Advisory: Potential Risk of Spontaneous Combustion in Large Quantities of Patient Examination Gloves.
The most important of these are the storage environment temperature and mass of the gloves. Therefore, do not store large quantities of powder-free latex patient examination gloves in conditions of extreme heat.
Because all the known fires occurred in a quantity of at least one pallet in warehouses without temperature controls, we consider a large quantity of powder-free latex gloves to be one pallet or more stored in a warm to hot location. While it is not possible to identify a maximum safe storage temperature, research has confirmed that the greater the mass quantity of gloves, the cooler the temperature must be to avoid fires. The FDA recommends the following precautions:
- Avoid a large inventory of powder-free latex gloves.
- Remove shrink-wrap from pallets of stacked cartons.
- Break the stacked cartons on each pallet apart and restack or reconfigure
cartons to - facilitate cooling ventilation.
- Periodically check powder-free latex gloves for characteristics suggesting
- deterioration, such as brittleness, tackiness, or an acrid chemical odor
or stench. - Rotate your powder-free latex glove stock using "first-in-first-out"
practices
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