PETALING JAYA: Comfort Gloves Bhd’s examination gloves will no longer need to be inspected prior to their entry into the US, after wholly owned subsidiary, Comfort Rubber Gloves Industries Sdn Bhd (CRGISB) was taken off the US Food & Drug Administration (US FDA) Import Alert List.

“The board of directors of the company wishes to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, CRGISB has on Nov 27, 2018 received a letter from the US Food & Drug Administration informing that CRGISB has been removed from the Import Alert list of the US Food and Drug Administration,” it told the stock exchange.

To recap, the glove maker was admitted to the list on March 15 and in a filing dated April 6, the group said it was working towards its removal from the list.

On Bursa Malaysia today, Comfort Gloves fell 2.13% to 92 sen with 1.02 million shares traded.