ICS: (83.140.99) Other rubber and plastics products, ICS: (11.140) Hospital equipment.

Ministerial Decree No. 477/2018 (3 pages, in Arabic), mandating the Egyptian standard ES 1595-1 "Rubber gloves for medical use - part: 1 single - use sterile rubber surgical gloves - specification" (20 pages, in Arabic).

The Ministerial Decree No. 477/2018 gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian Standard ES 1595-1 which specifies the requirements for packaged sterile rubber gloves intended for use in surgical procedures to protect the patient and the user from cross-contamination. It is applicable to single-use gloves that are worn once and then discarded. It does not apply to examination or procedure gloves. It covers gloves with smooth surfaces and gloves with textured surfaces over part or the whole glove.

This Standard is intended as a reference for the performance and safety of rubber surgical gloves. The safe and proper usage of surgical gloves and sterilization procedures with subsequent handling, packaging, and storage procedures are outside the scope of this Standard. Worth mentioning is that this standard is identical with ISO 10282/2014.