Steve Ardagh, chief executive officer for Eagle Protect, is known as “The Glove Guy.” Food Safety News met him at the International Association for Food Protection’s 2021 trade show. It was then we learned about his multi-year microbial analysis of potential pathogenic glove contamination.
Eagle Protect, which started out in New Zealand before moving to California, is now out with the results of that five-year study revealing the widespread risk of contamination in the disposable glove industry. In collaboration with the B. Michaels Group, the findings were presented at the 2022 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) annual meeting,