that the masks were not effective for blocking the coronavirus.
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is concerned that certain filtering facepiece respirators from China may not provide consistent and adequate respiratory protection to health care personnel exposed to COVID-19,” the agency wrote in a letter to health care providers around the country. As an additional safeguard, the CDC and the FDA initiated their own review to make sure the masks met these performance standards. On Thursday, the FDA said that too many of them failed to filter out a sufficient percentage of particles.
Many of the tests were conducted weeks ago, according to CDC documents, yet the FDA didn’t remove the masks until Thursday. It was unclear why there was such a delay. It was also unclear how many of the faulty masks were sold to American health care workers, where they ended up and whether the U.S. government was tracking that number. An FDA spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to questions on the issue.
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