Toxicity of Latex Dipped Products

Manufacturer: We are now under pressure from our customers to reduce the toxicity level of our latex dipped products. Tests are being carried out by our customers and the test results have not been encouraging. Can you please help?

John Woon (Senior Latex Consultant):You should seriously look into improving your leaching process, bearing in mind the importance of temperature, water cleanliness, water turbulence, wet and dry leaching and time of leaching. Do let me know if you want a copy of my more comprehensive report on the leaching process.

In addition, try to reduce the quantity of your compounding ingredients especially the accelerators. I suggest you also use a prevulcanised latex instead of  post-vulcanisable latex compounds because the former is comparatively less toxic.