China News Service, Beijing, December 7 (Reporter Liu Liang) The State Administration for Market Regulation held a regular press conference for the fourth quarter of 2021 on the 7th to introduce the strengthening of mask quality supervision.
Yu Jun, Director of the Press and Publicity Department and spokesperson of the State Administration for Market Regulation, pointed out that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the market demand for masks has increased exponentially, and the number of mask manufacturers has increased sharply.
In order to maintain market order, the market supervision department has increased the investigation and punishment of market disruptions such as raising the price of masks in the "three guarantees" action of "guarantee price, quality, and supply", and make every effort to ensure the quality of masks and other anti-epidemic materials and market supply , Provide strong support for people's livelihood security.
According to statistics, since the outbreak of the epidemic, market supervision departments and drug supervision departments at all levels have firmly maintained the bottom line of mask product quality and safety, carried out 11949 batches of mask quality supervision and spot checks, and recalled 113 non-medical masks, involving 1.6037 million pieces.
The quality of non-medical masks has steadily improved. In 2021, the unqualified detection rate of product quality supervision and random inspections in the production field will drop by 24.1 percentage points compared with 2020.
Liu Min, Director of the Quality Supervision Department of the State Administration of Market Supervision, said that as the epidemic prevention and control has become normal, the State Administration of Market Supervision has once again carried out national quality supervision spot checks to realize that production enterprises "should be sampled" and full coverage spot checks.
In particular, it has intensified random inspections of newly established and converted companies and companies that produce more masks in public opinion.
At the same time, in order to adapt to the urgency of epidemic prevention and control, random inspections are implemented to "sampling and inspecting", "inspecting and reporting", and "reporting and disposing" to prevent unqualified products from entering the market.
Since 2020, market supervision departments at all levels across the country have spot-checked 7,938 batches of non-medical mask products, effectively preventing substandard masks from entering the market.
In response to the recent official implementation of the latest version of the KN95 series of mandatory national standards for masks, Chen Hongjun, deputy director of the Standards and Technology Department of the State Administration for Market The resistance, the air tightness of the exhalation valve, the field of view, and the practical performance have been modified and improved, which has significantly improved the standard technical level of self-priming filter-type anti-particulate respiratory protection products.
The new version of the standard will play a more active role in regulating the development of the industry and promoting the improvement of product quality and safety.
Nan Jun, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Inspection Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, pointed out that since February this year, the market supervision department has organized investigations into the quality and safety of mask products in key areas, and severely cracked down on illegal activities such as the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy products.
The Southern Army said that up to now, the national market supervision department has investigated and handled 45,700 cases of illegal production and sale of masks and other protective equipment in special operations against the illegal production and sale of masks and other protective equipment. There were 1033 cases of public security organs.
In the special rectification action for certification activities in the field of anti-epidemic supplies such as masks and protective clothing, 17,600 enterprises of anti-epidemic supplies were inspected and assisted on the spot, 375 suspected illegal cases were investigated, and more than 35 million yuan was fined and confiscated.
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