UK glove policy unclear as Germans,Finns say LPA solved

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IN GERMANY,"The NR latex allergy epidemic is over,"according to Dr Henning Allmers,of the Department of Dermatology at Osnabruck University.Allmers said there is a direct linear correlation"between the decrease of occupational asthma and the purchase of powder-free gloves."In Finland,meanwhile,a long-term approach of testing latex gloves for allergen-and only using ones shown to have the lowest possible levels-has also limited problems of latex protein allergy(LPA)in the healthcare sector.