The State Administration for Market Regulation held a regular press conference on December 7, and the relevant person in charge introduced the situation of strengthening the quality supervision of masks.

According to Yu Jun, a spokesman for the State Administration for Market Regulation, 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. In 2021, product quality supervision and spot checks in the production field will be conducted. The unqualified discovery rate decreased by 24.1 percentage points from 2020.

Liu Min, director of the Quality Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, introduced that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, 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, only in February 2020. In a month, 360,000 substandard masks were prevented from entering 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 spot checks, so as to realize the "should be exhausted" for production enterprises, and the full coverage of spot checks. In particular, the random inspection of newly established and converted enterprises and mask production and operation enterprises with more public opinions has been increased. The inspection will be carried out as soon as possible after sampling, and an inspection report will be issued as soon as the inspection is completed to strictly prevent unqualified products from entering the market. Since 2020, 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.

Zhang Qi, deputy director of the Device Supervision Department of the State Food and Drug Administration, introduced the supervision of medical masks. 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 comprehensively carried out potential risk investigations. According to the feedback from the 12315 complaint reporting platform In 2020, the number of complaints about medical mask products was 5,060 (422 per month on average), and 245 in the first half of 2021 (41 per month on average). The quality of medical masks continued to improve.

Nan Jun, deputy director of the Law Enforcement and Inspection Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, introduced the latest situation of the national special rectification campaign for the quality and safety of masks and other anti-epidemic products. Up to now, the national market supervision departments have investigated and dealt with the illegal production and sale of masks and other protective equipment in the special campaign against illegal production and sales of masks and other protective equipment. There were 45,700 cases of supplies, 712 million yuan in fines and confiscations, 584 million yuan in value of goods involved, and 1,033 cases were transferred to public security organs.

The latest version of the mandatory national standard for KN95 series masks that everyone often uses has been officially implemented. Chen Hongjun, deputy director of the Standards and Technology Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, introduced the relevant situation. KN95 masks are particulate protective masks often used in labor protection. Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, It is widely used for virus protection in non-medical environments and has achieved good results. 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 the actual application needs of our country, and fully reflects the safety bottom line awareness of my country's mandatory national standards.