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State Administration for Market Regulation: The quality of non-medical masks has improved, and the rate of unqualified discovery has dropped by 24.1 percentage points
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Today, the State Administration for Market Regulation held a regular press conference, and the relevant person in charge introduced the situation of strengthening the quality supervision of masks. According to the meeting, since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, market supervision departments and drug supervision departments at all levels have firmly adhered to the bottom line of mask product quality and safety, and the quality of non-medical masks has steadily improved. Year-on-year decline of 24.1 percentage points.

According to reports, since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the State Administration for Market Regulation has immediately focused on key indicators related to epidemic protection and safety, such as filtration efficiency and protection effect, and organized special spot checks on the quality of mask products. In February 2020 alone, 360,000 substandard masks were prevented. into the market. With the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the State Administration for Market Regulation has repeatedly deployed and guided the national market supervision departments to carry out special quality supervision random inspections, so as to realize the "should be exhausted" and full coverage of random inspections by production enterprises. In particular, the random inspection of newly established and converted enterprises and mask production and operation enterprises that are reflected in public opinion has been intensified. The inspection will be carried out at the earliest time after sampling, and the inspection report will be issued at the earliest time after the inspection is completed to strictly prevent unqualified products from entering the market. From 2020 to now, market supervision departments at all levels across the country have randomly checked 7,938 batches of non-medical mask products, effectively preventing substandard masks from entering the market.

As of now, the national market supervision department has investigated and handled 45,700 cases of illegal production and sale of masks and other protective equipment in the special campaign against the illegal manufacture and sale of masks and other protective equipment, fined and confiscated 712 million yuan, and the value of the goods involved is 584 million yuan. ** 1033 institutional cases.

The State Food and Drug Administration has included the supervision of medical masks into its annual key work, vigorously strengthened quality and safety supervision, and carried out a comprehensive investigation of potential risks. According to the feedback from the 12315 complaint reporting platform, the number of complaints about medical mask products in 2020 was 5,060 (an average of 422 per month). In the first half of 2021, there were 245 pieces (an average of 41 pieces per month), and the quality of medical masks continued to improve.

The latest version of the mandatory national standard for KN95 series masks that everyone uses has been officially implemented. KN95 masks are particulate protective masks often used in labor protection. Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, they have been widely used in non-medical environments. good effect. GB 2626-2019 "Respiratory Protection Self-priming Filtering Anti-Particulate Respirator" (ie KN95 mask) is the current mandatory national standard, which will be officially implemented on July 1, 2021. The types of self-priming filtering respirators to which this standard applies can be divided into three types: disposable face masks, replaceable half masks and full face masks. New coronary pneumonia protective masks belong to the category of disposable masks. Compared with the 2006 version, the new standard has revised and improved the core technical indicators of anti-particulate respirator, such as breathing resistance, air tightness of exhalation valve, field of view, and practical performance, and significantly improved the self-priming filter type anti-particulate respiratory protection. The standard technical level of the product is in harmony with foreign advanced standards, which is more in line with my country's practical application needs, and fully reflects the safety bottom line awareness of my country's mandatory national standards.