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Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data (nautil.us)
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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lab gloves are nitrile plastic, they haven't been latex in decades.

[–] ThoGot@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There are still latex gloves around, they're just not that common

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Can't use latex in any hospital and most labs avoid them because of allergy and higher costs.

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Huh, last I wore goves was like 8 years ago, and my coworker had to have her own latex free gloves.