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Brother Buzz

(36,416 posts) Sun Jun 29, 2014, 04:47 PM Jun 2014

Glove requirement for California chefs repealed

Glove requirement for California chefs repealed

Saturday, June 28, 2014
SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
The gloves are coming off in California kitchens.

Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday that he's signed a measure repealing a state law that required restaurant employees to use gloves or utensils to handle food going straight to diners' plates.

The no-hands bill was passed last year and would have taken effect on July 1. It was intended to prevent disease transmission and covered everything from sushi rice to the mint in a mojito.

Forty-one other states have similar prohibitions and the California law drew no opposition from chain restaurants.

But some independent chefs and bartenders complained that it would restrict their hands-on craft, disrupt hand-washing routines and generate unnecessary waste of disposable gloves.

http://abc7news.com/food/glove-requirement-for-california-chefs-repealed/146651/

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Glove requirement for California chefs repealed (Original Post) Brother Buzz Jun 2014 OP

I've watched the sandwich makes at my local Safeway and wondered why they bothered. NV Whino Jun 2014 #1

This is a silly law. They should have enforcable food safety measures instead. Atman Jun 2014 #2

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

1. I've watched the sandwich makes at my local Safeway and wondered why they bothered.

Reply to Brother Buzz (Original post)

Sun Jun 29, 2014, 04:58 PM

Jun 2014

Really, it sometimes seems like the required gloves are more unsanitary than hands.

Atman

(31,464 posts)

2. This is a silly law. They should have enforcable food safety measures instead.

Reply to Brother Buzz (Original post)

Sun Jun 29, 2014, 06:17 PM

Jun 2014

It is a major PITA to be constantly taking on and off gloves between every food you touch. Any good kitchen which will pass health inspection will have a hand-washing station right there, and it is much more efficient to simply wash your hands than constantly changing gloves. Been there, done that.

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