Here’s what the law intends to do:
Under the new provision, food and beverage handlers would have to change gloves every time they change tasks or touch another ready-to-eat food. Even then, they still would be required to wash their hands between glove changes. The concern is that amid multitasking, food and drink handlers might resist or forget to change gloves repeatedly.
“A dirty glove is worse than a clean hand,” Pan said. “Gloves don’t inherently guarantee safety.”
Here’s the unintended result:
If the law isn’t rescinded, Remy Nelson, owner of Mojo Bicycle Cafe in San Francisco, estimates he’ll go through 50,000 gloves a year just for bagels.
How can they possibly repeal “every word” of the law... isn’t it the “law of the land”?
They hate plastic grocery bags but love the glove. Idiots!
Who lobbied for that law? The glove manufacturing union?
How about tongs or those pieces of waxy paper usually used in grabbing food. They are about 1 cent each at Sam's Club, so should be even less in 50,000 quantity.
” . . . estimates he’ll go through 50,000 gloves a year just for bagels.”
Quick, someone ask the Sierra Club to calculate the volume of all the used gloves they’ll have to dispose of each year in California (and no, they’re not readily biodegrable).
And guess what raw material is used to make the material in almost all those gloves? If you guessed “petroleum”, you’re a winner! Yes, from the tar sands of Canada by rail or through a pipeline to the Pacific, across the ocean to China, then back by ship to Long Beach, gazillions of gloves, waiting to find a landfill near you!