Yulex signs agreement to distribute natural latex.

Yulex, Carlsbad Carlsbad, cities, United States
Carlsbad (kärlz`băd).

1 City (1990 pop. 63,126), San Diego co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; settled in the 1880s, inc. 1952. , CA, announced a distribution agreement to sell the only U.S. produced natural rubber latex latex, emulsion of a polymer (e.g., rubber) in water (see colloid). Natural latexes are produced by a number of plants, are usually white in color, and often contain, in addition to rubber, various gums, oils, and waxes. material on the market that is safe for healthcare workers and patients who suffer from tropical latex allergy latex allergy Allergy medicine An IgE-mediated sensitivity to latex proteins Clinical Anaphylaxis, angioedema, asthma, conjunctivitis, contact urticaria, rhinitis, following sensitization to latex allergens; LA is common, affects ±7% of US population, ≥ . Yulex has signed an exclusive five-year distribution agreement with leading international natural rubber suppliers and distributors Centrotrade Rubber USA and Centrotrade Deutschland GmbH. Centrotrade's U.S. and European European

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see cryptococcosis. operations will distribute Yulex Natural Rubber Latex worldwide to medical device manufacturers of surgical gloves, condoms, catheters and other latex-based medical products that are seeking an alternative to lower performing synthetic latex materials. Yulex Natural Rubber Latex is derived from Guayule gua·yu·le
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A shrub (Parthenium argentatum) of the southwest United States and Mexico whose sap was considered a potential source of natural rubber during World War II. , a desert plant indigenous to the U.S. southwest and free of the proteins that cause tropical latex allergy, using technology developed originally by the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and licensed to Yulex for commercialization.

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Title Annotation:	Contracts, licenses
Publication:	Rubber World
Date:	Jun 1, 2005
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