The FDA Food Code requires that most ready-to-eat foods be handled without bare-hand contact. This mainly reduces the risk of:

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Handling ready-to-eat food with gloves, tongs, or other utensils instead of bare hands reduces biological contamination from pathogens like Norovirus, Hepatitis A, Shigella, and Staph carried on hands. While good practices also help with allergens, the bare-hand rule primarily targets pathogen transfer. It is not aimed at glass or sanitizer.