Important Safety Alerts from the Hong Kong Medical Device Control Office 香港衛生署醫療儀器管制辦公室發出之重要安全警示

The Important Safety Alerts

On December 19, 2016, the Hong Kong Medical Device Control Office from Department of Health publish a important safety alerts regarding to the final rule banning the use of powdered medical gloves from The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Please refer to the following website from Hong Kong Medical Device Control Office for the details of the Important Safety Alerts:

http://www.mdco.gov.hk/english/safety/recalls/recalls_20161219.html

Regarding to the U.S FDA ban on powdered medical gloves, please refer to the previous post on yesterday (Dec 19,2016)

Better Late Than Never?  Choose Powder Free Over Powdered Gloves

Although there is no rules from Hong Kong Government to ban the powdered medical gloves in Hong Kong, but as a professional medical gloves adviser.  We should take this ban seriously and this is about protecting patients and healthcare professionals from a danger they might not even be aware of.

The powder is typically added to gloves to ease donning and removal.  Actually there are some manufacturing techniques which helps the powder free gloves enables easy donning on.  Why don’t you choose the powder free over the powdered gloves?

重要安全警示

香港衛生署醫療儀管制辦公室於2016年12月19日發出一則重要安全警示，內容關乎美國食品及藥物管理局公佈的一項指引 – 在全美禁用大部分用於手術和病人檢查的有粉手套以及用於潤滑外科醫生手套的可吸收粉末。

詳情可參閱香港衛生署網頁: http://www.mdco.gov.hk/english/safety/recalls/recalls_20161219.html

關美國食品及藥物管理局公佈之禁用指引，可參閱昨天的帖子 (Dec 19, 2016)

為您的客戶著想，選用無粉手套

雖然香港並未就這項指引作出立法禁用，作為專業領域的一員，我們應該認真看待這一禁令和當中潛在的風險。這是應當關心並保護的公眾健康，不論是患者還是專業的醫療人員。

將粉末加入手套當中的設計，是為了方便穿戴和除下。事實上現今有一些的製造技術已能夠使其易於穿載。為何不選用無粉手套呢?