Disposable gloves have been identified by the FDA as potential sources of cross-contamination, with scientific studies implicating contaminated gloves as contributory factors in more than 15% of foodservice foodborne outbreaks investigated.
Despite these figures, disposable gloves have been overlooked by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) because the risk of contamination from disposable gloves is not seen as a great enough food safety threat to warrant further investigation.