• rosymind@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really see how people chosing to be barefoot has anything to do with their ability to make eye-drops, unless the aforementioned people are using their feet to do it

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      Being barefoot could potentially introduce extra risk of contamination from shedding skin cells; this may or may not matter depending on which part of the plant they’re working at. In clean room environments, people usually wear special clothing that prevent cross contamination; these include special coat, hair netting, and extra layer of covering around the shoes. But if the said employee works in the office on administrative tasks, far away from clean areas of production, who cares?

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        1 year ago

        I see. I figuered as long as they’d wear hair nets, masks, coats and gloves it shouldn’t matter what’s going on with their feet- but I suppose that could make sense? Idk, It still feels like a strange thing to be fixated on…

        I didn’t read the article, though

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            1 year ago

            And now I’m imaging them all in a bus, driving upward from someone’s toes, with a bumper sticker that says:

            “Destination: EyeDrops”

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              1 year ago

              More like they’re all uncontrollably spreading in the wind like leaves in an autumn storm, landing everywhere.

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      Most surprisingly, the inspectors observed barefoot employees working in a sterile area of the facility, where they should have been wearing shoes—plus gowns, gloves, and shoe booties. (The barefoot workers were also not wearing gowns or gloves.) A production manager puzzlingly told FDA inspectors that shoeless work is “standard practice.”

      They were supposed to cover everything including the feet.