Not Made With Natural Rubber Latex

If you have a natural rubber latex allergy tell your physician dentist nurses and employer and avoid contact with gloves and products made with natural rubber latex.

Not made with natural rubber latex.

This sap can be further refined and compounded to render it. The danger of inaccurate. Synthetic latex is made from petroleum and does not. There are two types of latex natural rubber latex and synthetic rubber latex.

The terms latex free and does not contain natural rubber latex suggest that the medical product is completely without nrl fda wrote. For instance latex paint does not contain natural rubber latex but does contain liquid synthetic polymers. Currently there is no requirement to have a not made with natural rubber latex statement or other information regarding the lack of use of natural rubber latex in medical product labeling. The word latex by itself does not refer to natural rubber latex.

In other words it refers to natural rubber latex dry natural rubber and synthetic latex or synthetic rubber that contains natural rubber in its formulation. The word by itself does not refer to natural rubber latex. Natural rubber latex refers to the white sap that comes from the hevea brasiliensis tree. However even when medical products are not made with nrl there is a chance that products can become contaminated with nrl allergens during manufacturing or packaging processes.

The purpose of this guidance is to make recommendations on the appropriate language to include in the labeling of a medical product to convey that natural rubber latex was not used as a material.