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		Cass on April 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Faceshield Speaking as a physician who's been handed a lot of respirators from ever more dodgy sources, how do I tell whether I'm given a counterfeit N95?

mike_d on April 7, 2020 [–]

The CDC has a great page [1] on fake N95 masks, including details at the bottom on identifying real ones. They also provide a list of everyone who is approved to make them [2].

1. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/usernotices/counterfeitResp....

2. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...

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