Masks on offer: how to check the certificate?
Masks on offer
In these hours of restrictions and resurgence of infections throughout Italy, it is useful to understand how to check if the masks on offer purchased online at advantageous prices can be truly protective, certified and approved for the type of protection to be achieved. br>Recent events demonstrate the importance of knowing the details, understanding what you are buying and thus avoiding falling into verbal traps that can lead us to dangerous - as well as wrong - choices. In fact, the investigations underway are known both on large batches of imported surgical masks, and on masks as well known to the public as - now - to the prosecutors.
How to check the masks that are in place to buy?
A first important information in this sense is provided by Accredia, “Italian accreditation body”, which summarizes the information necessary for a product to be verified. As explained, if a PPE has been screened by a notified body, it must report:name and identification number of the notified body; name and address of the manufacturer and, if the application is submitted by the authorized representative, the name and address of the latter; identification of the PPE covered by the certificate (type number); declaration in which it is certified that the Type of PPE satisfies the applicable essential health and safety requirements; if the harmonized standards have been applied in whole or in part, the references of those standards or parts thereof; if other technical specifications have been applied, their references; where applicable, the performance level or class of protection of the PPE; for PPE produced as single units to suit a single user, the range of permitted variations of the relevant parameters based on the approved base model; the date of issue, the expiration date and, if applicable, the renewal date (s); any conditions related to the issue of the certificate; for category III PPE, a statement that the certificate must be used only in combination with one of the conformity assessment procedures referred to in Article 19, letter c). A specific European database (NANDO) contains the various entities, with all the necessary details: the number that distinguishes them is one of the essential information that the product must show in order to make a safe purchase.
Generic information on facsimiles of certificates presented in support of FFP2 and FFP3 type PPE that contain words such as "Qualified Certificate", "Protective Mask" or "Contrast COVID-19" are not required by current legislation and indeed represent an element that can be confusing final consumers and of whom we must be wary by paying the utmost attention to the actual compliance of the PPE that is proposed.
Another useful tool is a search engine available on the Ministry of Health website, very precise but, at the time itself, not easy to use. You can access it here.
A special infographic (here) summarizes all the essential information to be able to carry out your verification.
An example In light of the greater danger of contagions of the so-called "English variant", the general advice is to put aside the "community" masks, limit the use of surgical ones and prefer FPP2 in most cases. In short, it is better to guarantee for oneself and for others a more efficient filter, but after a careful check on the available certification.
Let's start with an offer available in these hours on Amazon: 25 certified FPP2 masks, individually packaged, called STM-6010 and available at the advantageous price of 0.80 euros each. In this case, the promised certification is EN 149: 2001 + A1: 2009 of the body 0370 (APPLUS). The data are therefore explicit and verifiable, as well as in many (not all) other offers available online.
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Let's start with an offer available in these hours on Amazon: 25 certified FPP2 masks, individually packaged, called STM-6010 and available at the advantageous price of 0.80 euros each. In this case, the promised certification is EN 149: 2001 + A1: 2009 of the body 0370 (APPLUS). The data are therefore explicit and verifiable, as well as in many (not all) other offers available online.
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