Particle filter mask — Photo: Safety Gate / notifying authority

Photo: Safety Gate / notifying authority

INFO/00049/2122 February 2021

Particle filter mask

Country of origin: People's Republic of China
Notifying country: Iceland

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What is the danger

The product bears a CE marking but is not certified as protective equipment by a relevant body. Consequently, the product might not fulfil the health and safety requirements and thus not properly protect if not combined with additional measures.

Requirements breached

The product does not comply with the Personal Protective Equipment Regulation and with the relevant European standard EN 149.

Measures taken

Recall of the product from end users Voluntary measuresTaken by: ImporterIn force from: 14 September 2020

Product

Description: KN95 protective respiratory filtration half-face mask, corresponding to FFP2 according to EN 149.
Packaging: The product is sold in white boxes with blue highlights, of 10 units each. The barcode is placed as a sticker by the retailer.
Model / type: 2020-1XMTKN95
Barcode: 5690536934167

Original source

Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.

Alert number: INFO/00049/21 ↗
Weekly report: Report-2020-43
Published: 22 February 2021
Modified: 22 February 2021
Corrigendum: Notification A12/01390/20, submitted on the grounds of Art.12, has been downgraded to a "For Information" notification. This change was made after a re-evalutaion of the notification found that the requirements were, in the end, not met. The new case number was changed to INFO/00049/21.