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Not knowing much about PPE, I couldn’t understand how some of our stocks had expired. Latex gloves was about all I could come up with!?
GoatandTricycle-
Some types of disposable masks have a use-by date but hey are being tested after that to check still effective. If they fail they are destroyed, if passed they can get relabelled with new use by date
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Not knowing much about PPE, I couldn’t understand how some of our stocks had expired. Latex gloves was about all I could come up with!?
I've got a packet of 2 dust masks I bought when putting some loft insulation in many years ago which are marked as expired in 2014. My other half wore one to Sainsbury's last week and it seems okay but the elastic in the straps is most of the way to perished. If you have ever stretched an old elastic band only for it to snap and crumble then that is what it feels like it is about to do.
I can imagine things like gowns have similar issues with cuffs etc.
dubtap
jellybaby
When the history of this is written, the PPE supply chain and globally what is happening with it (let alone the UK) right now is probabaly going to drop jaws.
In the US you have DHS trying to sieze shipments from the States who are disguising deliveries in food delivery trucks.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/hospitals-face-a-white-house-blockade-for-coronavirus-ppe.html
And lets see if that plane full of kit from Turkey ever arrives.