Is the new year mask material safe?
It is recommended to choose a mask product with no printing or dyeing in direct contact with the skin
As the Spring Festival approaches, the online and offline New Year goods market is getting stronger. In addition to various food and wine gift boxes, masks have also become "special" New Year goods.
Different from ordinary solid-color medical or protective masks, most of the New Year masks are printed in red, with elements such as "Fu", "Auspicious", "Niu Turns the Universe", and "Bull Qi soaring".
Will the protective effect and quality of these masks be affected?
The relevant person in charge of the Product Quality and Safety Supervision and Management Office of the Chengdu Municipal Market Supervision Bureau said that the surface printing of the mask will not have much impact on the performance indicators of the product, but it is recommended to choose the mask product that directly contacts the skin without printing or dyeing.
New Year masks look festive
Designed with elements such as "Fu" and "Bull"
Last week, Xiaoqing (pseudonym) received a new year's goods from the company. Among them was a box of "New Year's greeting masks" in red packaging, which made her and her colleagues feel very novel. "I didn't expect there to be this style of mask. The red one is very festive. , There are three small boxes in a gift box, a total of 150, if you bring it as a gift, it is also very suitable." Xiaoqing said that after sharing the company's new year's face masks in Moments, friends made reservations.
"There are five kinds of prints. I have tried them apart. There is no peculiar smell. They are almost the same as the masks I usually wear." Speaking of shortcomings, Xiaoqing thinks that the outer prints are not very clear. "The words are a bit fuzzy, and it is probably related to the material."
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter found that on Taobao, Jingdong and other e-commerce platforms, there are already many similar New Year masks and New Year masks on sale. Most of them use red as the background color, and the printing is around "Fu", "Niu" and "2021". And other elements, the new year is full of breath.
"We started preparing for the Chinese New Year mask project in November last year. The original intention was to bring you good luck and have a good Chinese New Year." Chi Jinling, manager of the internal trade department of Wanxinda (Guangzhou) Technology Products Co., Ltd., said that the new year masks are named " The character "Fu" and the cartoon image of the Year of the Ox are creative, which not only protects health, but also exaggerates the joy of the New Year.
"The New Year is coming soon, it is going to be booming and bullish!" Some netizens commented.
The quality of masks and whether they are medical-grade masks have also become a concern for some netizens.
New year masks become popular
It is recommended to choose products with no printing or dyeing in direct contact with the skin
The reporter learned from the official website of the China National Institute of Standardization that my country's current mask standards are divided into ordinary protective masks and medical protective mask standards.
Ordinary protective masks are represented by the national standard GB/T32610-2016 "Technical Specifications for Daily Protective Masks", and the national standard GB 2626-2006 "Respiratory Protective Equipment Self-priming Filtered Particle Respirators"; in the medical field, it is divided into countries Standard GB 19083-2010 "Technical Requirements for Medical Protective Masks", industry standard YY 0469-2011 "Medical Surgical Masks", industry standard YY/T 0969-2013 "Disposable Medical Masks".
The reporter noticed that the New Year masks on the e-commerce platform include both daily protective masks and medical masks.
Corfu’s flagship store of medical equipment sells the "Bullish" masks for the Year of the Ox. The box is marked as a medical surgical mask, and a medical device registration certificate is provided on the product page.
"This is a medical surgical mask with a bacterial filtration rate of ≥95%, which meets the YY0469-2011 standard." The customer service of the online store said that the new year mask is made of the same material as the common blue medical surgical mask.
"There are both disposable medical masks and medical surgical masks. Two types of registration certificates are obtained, and remarks will be made on the packaging." A salesperson from Jiangxi Glans Medical Devices Co., Ltd. told reporters that the company's orders have been scheduled for 10 days. Up.
Chi Jinling said that the new year masks produced by his company also ushered in an explosion of orders this week. "The production capacity is full every day, and about 2 million new year masks can be produced a day."
"The surface printing of masks will not have much impact on the performance indicators of the product, but it is recommended to choose mask products with no printing or dyeing of materials that directly contact the skin." The relevant person in charge of the Product Quality and Safety Supervision and Management Office of the Chengdu Municipal Market Supervision Bureau said, it is recommended Consumers choose to buy according to the classification and scope of application of masks, and use them correctly according to the product instructions.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Ye Yan
Intern reporter Xiao Haoyue