ISO 9001:2015 · CE · ASTM D6319 · FDA 510(k)

Kitchen Nitrile Gloves — Food-Contact Grade, Factory Direct

Powder-free kitchen nitrile gloves built to food-contact compliance standards — consistent spec, container-ready supply, private-label supported.

Produced on the same 8 automated dipping lines that hold EN 455 and FDA 510(k) for our medical line. The process discipline doesn't change because the end use is a kitchen.

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Product Overview

What Kitchen Nitrile Gloves Are — and Where They Sit in Your Product Line

Kitchen nitrile gloves are powder-free, food-contact grade disposable gloves designed for commercial food preparation, food processing, and food service environments. The defining specification requirements are straightforward: no powder contamination, no latex protein (a regulatory and liability concern in commercial kitchens), and compliance with food-contact material standards in the target market.

What separates a kitchen nitrile glove from a general industrial nitrile glove isn't the base construction — it's the compliance documentation and the formulation choices that support it. The glove itself is a standard powder-free nitrile dip. What changes is the compound formulation (no colorants or additives that fail food-contact migration testing), the post-stripping process (chlorination and rinse to eliminate surface residue), and the documentation package that ships with the carton.

Within our industrial nitrile glove line, kitchen nitrile sits alongside food nitrile gloves as the food-contact segment — the distinction being that kitchen nitrile is positioned specifically for food service and commercial kitchen channels, where the buyer's downstream customers are restaurant groups, catering operations, institutional food service, and food retail.

If you're building a distribution line that covers both food processing facilities and food service accounts, these two SKUs cover the full channel without requiring separate supplier qualifications.

Kitchen nitrile gloves in food service environment — powder-free, food-contact grade
AQL 1.5
Outgoing Inspection
100%
Pinhole Detection
8 Lines
Automated Dipping

Channel coverage note: Kitchen nitrile (food service / commercial kitchen) + food nitrile (food processing) = full food-contact channel from a single supplier qualification. No separate factory audits required.

Technical Data

Product Specifications

Food-contact compliance documentation — including migration test reports and material safety data — is available on request. Exact tensile strength and elongation-at-break values are in our product test reports.

Standard Specification Sheet

Parameter Specification
Material 100% nitrile rubber, latex-free
Powder Powder-free (post-stripping chlorination)
Wall Thickness (palm) 0.10–0.12mm (typical)
Surface Texture Fingertip micro-texture
Cuff Style Beaded cuff
Cuff Length ~240mm (standard)
Available Colors
Blue White
Sizes
XS S M L XL
AQL Standard 1.5
Pinhole Detection Online electrical, 100% of production
Packaging 100 gloves/box, 10 boxes/carton
Certifications
ISO 9001:2015 CE ASTM D6319FDA 510(k)
Kitchen nitrile gloves in blue and white colorways for food service

Color Selection Notes

Blue — Industry Default Dominant colorway for food service accounts. Industry standard for contamination visibility in commercial kitchens; most food safety auditors expect it.
White — Presentation Accounts Available for buyers whose accounts have specific uniform or presentation requirements. No MOQ premium for either colorway.

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Full TDS including tensile strength, elongation-at-break, and food-contact migration test reports available on request.

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Compliance

Food-Contact Compliance: What the Documentation Covers

This is the section that determines whether your kitchen nitrile SKU can enter regulated procurement channels — food processing facilities, institutional food service, and retail food chains all require compliance documentation before a glove goes on the approved supplier list.

Formulation Validated Separately

Our kitchen nitrile compound is formulated without colorants or chemical additives that fail food-contact migration testing under EU Regulation 10/2011 and FDA 21 CFR standards. We don't run the same compound as our automotive or chemical-handling variants and call it food-contact — the formulation is validated separately.

Controlled Powder-Free Process

Powder-free means the gloves are chlorinated after stripping to reduce surface tack. If chlorination and rinse stages aren't controlled properly, residual chlorination agent or surface coating can remain — a contamination risk in food-contact applications. We run a dedicated powder-free process with a final rinse stage and surface residue testing as part of outgoing QC.

Migration Testing on Every Batch

The nitrile compound goes through migration testing — specific migration limits for relevant substances — before it enters commercial production. This is the test report your buyers' food safety auditors will ask for first.

Documentation Package

What's Included for Buyers Entering Regulated Channels

This documentation set is what gets your SKU onto an approved supplier list without a lengthy qualification process on your buyer's end — pre-qualified compliance is a sourcing efficiency your buyers will pay a margin premium for.

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Food-Contact Compliance Declaration

Signed declaration for your supplier qualification file

Migration Test Report Summary

Specific migration limits per EU Reg. 10/2011 and FDA 21 CFR

Material Safety Data Sheet

MSDS for the nitrile compound used in this SKU

ISO 9001:2015 Certificate

Plus FDA 510(k) clearance for US regulated food-contact channels

For buyers entering EU food service distribution, we can provide documentation aligned with EU Regulation 10/2011 requirements. FDA 510(k) clearance is in place for buyers supplying US regulated food-contact channels.

Distribution

Market Segments: Where Kitchen Nitrile Gloves Generate Repeatable Volume

Food service and food-contact glove distribution has a structural advantage over many industrial segments: the reorder pattern is predictable and volume-driven. Once your SKU is on the approved list, the reorder is largely automatic.

Commercial food service kitchen glove use
Core Channel

Commercial Food Service Distribution

Restaurant groups, catering companies, hotel food and beverage operations, and contract food service operators all run on standardized glove specifications — typically blue, powder-free, medium weight, in bulk case quantities.

Buying pattern: A mid-size food service distributor serving 200–500 restaurant accounts runs 5–15 containers per year on this SKU alone, with predictable seasonal peaks around Q4 catering volume.

Your margin comes from supply reliability and documentation readiness, not from spec differentiation — this segment buys on price and availability once the spec is approved.

Highest Volume Per Account

Food Processing and Manufacturing

Requires the compliance documentation discussed above, but the volume per account is substantially higher. The procurement cycle is annual contract-based — winning one account locks in 12 months of predictable volume.

50K–100K

gloves/month per facility (3-shift operation)

12 months

predictable volume per contract win

The qualification process is more involved — they'll want migration test reports and may request a factory audit. We've supported buyers through food processing facility qualification processes before; the documentation package we provide is structured to satisfy most food safety audit requirements without back-and-forth.

Food processing facility nitrile glove use
Institutional food service cafeteria glove use
GPO & Tender Contracts

Institutional Food Service

School districts, hospital cafeterias, corporate dining, correctional facilities — procures on annual or multi-year contracts through group purchasing organizations (GPOs) or direct tender. Volume per contract is high and reorder is automatic once you're on the approved vendor list.

Competitive advantage: Many distributors lose institutional bids because their supplier can't produce the paperwork fast enough. Having FDA 510(k) and food-contact documentation already in place closes that gap.

Retail food grocery private label kitchen gloves
Higher Margin Channel

Retail Food and Grocery

Supermarket chains, warehouse clubs, specialty food retailers — sells kitchen gloves to consumers and small food businesses. If you're supplying retail accounts, private-label capability matters: your retail buyer wants their own brand on the box, not a factory name.

We handle OEM packaging for retail-format kitchen nitrile, including retail-ready box design and UPC labeling. Volume per retail account is lower than food processing, but margin on private-label retail is typically higher than commodity food service supply.

Ready to qualify your SKU for a regulated channel?

Request the compliance documentation package and we'll walk you through the qualification process for your target segment.

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In-House Compounding

How We Formulate for Food-Contact: The Compound Decisions That Matter

Most glove factories don't talk about compound formulation because they buy pre-mixed compound from a third-party supplier and have no visibility into what's in it. We mix our own compound in-house, which means we control every input — and for food-contact applications, that control is what makes the compliance documentation credible rather than aspirational.

The kitchen nitrile compound uses a restricted additive list. Colorants are limited to food-contact approved pigments — the blue colorway uses a pigment that passes EU 10/2011 migration limits, not a general industrial colorant that happens to be blue. Plasticizers, stabilizers, and processing aids are selected from food-contact approved substance lists. The vulcanization chemistry uses accelerator types and concentrations that stay within migration limits for food-contact applications.

We validate the compound formulation against food-contact standards before it goes into production, and we re-validate when any input material changes supplier or batch specification. This is the part that most buyers never see but that determines whether your compliance documentation holds up under a food safety audit. A migration test report based on a compound that's since changed formulation is worth nothing — ours reflects the actual production compound.

The in-house compounding lab also means we can adjust the formulation for specific market requirements. If your target market has stricter migration limits than the EU baseline — some Asian markets do — we can reformulate and re-validate without going back to a third-party compound supplier. This has come up with buyers entering the Japanese food service market, where food-contact standards are more restrictive than EU 10/2011 in some categories.

In-house nitrile compound mixing lab at glovemfg facility

Restricted Additive List

Colorants, plasticizers, stabilizers, and processing aids all selected from food-contact approved substance lists — not general industrial grades.

Re-Validation on Input Change

Any supplier or batch specification change triggers re-validation. Your migration test report always reflects the actual production compound.

Market-Specific Reformulation

Stricter limits in Japan or other Asian markets? We reformulate and re-validate in-house — no third-party compound supplier bottleneck.

EU 10/2011 Baseline

Vulcanization chemistry uses accelerator types and concentrations validated to stay within EU 10/2011 migration limits for food-contact applications.

Product Line Navigation

Specification Fit: Kitchen Nitrile vs. Sibling Products

Kitchen nitrile gloves share the industrial nitrile line's manufacturing infrastructure but are positioned specifically for food-contact channels. Use this guide to match the right SKU to your accounts.

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Kitchen Nitrile Gloves

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Building a Distribution Line That Covers Both Food Channels?

Kitchen nitrile and food nitrile are the two food-contact SKUs in the industrial line. Carrying both from the same supplier simplifies your qualification process and your container logistics — one factory audit, one compliance documentation set, one container consolidation point.

Food Nitrile Gloves Full Industrial Line
Private Label & OEM

OEM and Private-Label Kitchen Nitrile Gloves

Food service distribution is a private-label-friendly channel. Restaurant supply companies, food service distributors, and retail food chains routinely put their own brand on disposable gloves — it's a margin play and a brand consistency play for their customers. We handle OEM packaging for kitchen nitrile from the same facility and the same production lines as our standard SKUs.

Packaging Customization

Box printing with your brand name, logo, product description, and regulatory text. Carton labeling and inner bag branding available. Retail-ready boxes with UPC barcodes, compliance panels, and shelf-ready display formats.

Regulatory Documentation

CE declaration of conformity, FDA 510(k) reference, and food-contact compliance declaration prepared under your brand name for markets where you hold the import registration.

Custom Formulation

Available for buyers needing a specific color outside standard blue/white, a specific elongation-at-break target, or a particular compliance profile for a non-standard market. Projects go through the in-house compounding lab with validation testing before first commercial run.

MOQ & Threshold Logic

Standard OEM Packaging

MOQ: one 40HQ container — approximately 2,000 boxes. Your label on our standard kitchen nitrile SKU.

Custom Formulation Projects

Same MOQ: one 40HQ container. Below that threshold, compound development and line setup cost doesn't make sense for either side — we'll tell you that upfront.

OEM private-label kitchen nitrile glove packaging line
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Logistics & Supply Chain

Container Loading and Supply Chain Logistics

Standard kitchen nitrile gloves pack at 100 gloves per box, 10 boxes per carton. A properly loaded 40HQ carries approximately 2,000 cartons — 2,000,000 gloves per container. Carton dimensions are optimized for 40HQ loading efficiency; there's no wasted cubic space in a standard configuration.

100

Gloves per Box

10

Boxes per Carton

2,000

Cartons per 40HQ

2M

Gloves per Container

Labeling & Carton Configuration

Carton labeling can be configured to Amazon FBA requirements, distributor DC barcode standards, or your own warehouse receiving format. For food service distributors running direct-to-restaurant delivery, inner box labeling can match your customer's receiving requirements. For retail accounts, retail-ready packaging with UPC and shelf-facing label placement is standard.

Amazon FBA — carton labeling to FBA inbound requirements

Distributor DC — barcode standards and warehouse receiving format

Direct-to-restaurant — inner box labeling matched to end customer receiving

Retail accounts — UPC and shelf-facing label placement standard

Lead Times & Scheduling Visibility

Lead time for standard kitchen nitrile SKUs runs 25–35 days from order confirmation. For repeat orders on established SKUs, we maintain a rolling production schedule — you get a confirmed ship date at order placement, not after production planning.

Seasonal Volume Planning

For food service distributors managing seasonal volume peaks — Q4 catering, summer outdoor events — that scheduling visibility matters for your inventory planning.

Pre-Shipment Inspection

SGS or Bureau Veritas third-party inspection available. We coordinate inspection scheduling as part of the shipment process — it doesn't add lead time if confirmed at order placement.

40HQ container loading for kitchen nitrile gloves bulk shipment

Frequently Asked Questions

What food-contact certifications do your kitchen nitrile gloves carry?

Our kitchen nitrile gloves are produced under ISO 9001:2015 quality management and carry CE marking, ASTM D6319, and FDA 510(k) clearance. Food-contact compliance documentation — including migration test reports aligned with EU Regulation 10/2011 and FDA 21 CFR food-contact material standards — is available on request. For buyers entering specific regulated markets (EU food service tenders, US institutional procurement), we provide the full documentation package at the time of sample shipment.

What is the minimum order quantity for kitchen nitrile gloves?

One 40HQ container for standard SKUs — approximately 2,000 boxes at 100 gloves per box. For buyers who want to test the product before committing to a full container, sample orders ship within 5–7 business days with full certification and food-contact compliance documentation included.

What is the difference between kitchen nitrile gloves and food nitrile gloves?

Both are powder-free, food-contact grade nitrile gloves produced on the same manufacturing lines. Kitchen nitrile is positioned for food service and commercial kitchen channels — standard weight (0.10–0.12mm), blue or white colorway, food-contact compliant documentation, retail-packaging options. Food nitrile gloves cover food processing environments where heavier gauge or specific puncture resistance documentation is required. If your accounts span both food service and food processing, carrying both SKUs from the same supplier simplifies your qualification and logistics.

Can kitchen nitrile gloves be used in food processing facilities with HACCP requirements?

Yes, provided the facility's HACCP plan accepts the glove specification. Our food-contact compliance documentation — migration test reports, material safety data sheet, ISO 9001 certificate — is structured to satisfy most HACCP supplier qualification requirements. For facilities that require a factory audit as part of supplier qualification, we support third-party audit coordination through SGS or Bureau Veritas. Contact us with your facility's specific documentation requirements and we'll confirm what's available.

Do you support private-label packaging for kitchen nitrile gloves?

Yes. OEM packaging — your brand name, logo, and regulatory text on the box — runs from the same facility with no subcontracting. MOQ is one 40HQ container. Retail-ready packaging with UPC barcodes and shelf-facing label formats is available. Regulatory documentation is prepared under your brand name. Contact us to discuss your packaging requirements.

What colorways are available, and can I get a custom color?

Standard colorways are blue and white — both kept in the standard production rotation with no MOQ premium. Custom colors are available through our in-house compounding lab using food-contact approved pigments; custom color projects require validation testing before commercial production and carry a one-container MOQ. If you're targeting a specific retail presentation or brand color, send us the Pantone reference and we'll confirm feasibility.

Factory-Direct Supply Since 2007

Source Kitchen Nitrile Gloves from a Factory That Controls the Compound

The compliance documentation that gets your kitchen nitrile SKU onto an approved supplier list is only as reliable as the manufacturing process behind it. We mix our own nitrile compound in-house, validate the formulation against food-contact standards, and run 100% AQL 1.5 outgoing inspection on every production lot. The documentation we provide reflects the actual production compound — not a third-party supplier's batch that we have no visibility into.

glovemfg has manufactured nitrile gloves since 2007. The 18,000 m² facility in Weifang runs 8 automated dipping lines with 1.2 billion pieces annual capacity. Learn more about our manufacturing capabilities →

If you're evaluating suppliers for your food service or kitchen nitrile line, send us your target market, volume expectations, and any specific compliance requirements. We'll respond with a detailed quote, the relevant documentation package, and a sample shipment if you want to test the product before committing to a container.

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glovemfg Weifang facility automated nitrile dipping lines

2007

Est.

18,000 m²

Facility

1.2B

Pcs / Year

Contact

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