To help replenish dwindling supplies of N95 masks, U.S. government agencies had been allowing them to be imported by businesses that hadn't been through the FDA's usual vetting process. In an interview published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, an FDA official admitted that a growing number of respirator masks imported to the U.S. were failing to meet the required standards. As a result, the agency has cut the number of companies in China approved to make N95-style masks for export to the U.S. from around 80 to just 14. Read More...
FDA Withdraws Approvals for Most of China’s N95 Maskmakers
To help replenish dwindling supplies of N95 masks, U.S. government agencies had been allowing them to be imported by businesses that hadn’t been through the FDA’s usual vetting process. In an interview published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, an FDA official admitted that a growing number of respirator masks imported to the U.S. were failing to meet the required standards. As a result, the agency has cut the number of companies in China approved to make N95-style masks for export to the U.S. from around 80 to just 14.
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