A South Surrey company that began manufacturing medical masks near the end of last year has officially received Health Canada approval and certification.

Eternity Medical Equipment , and in December began producing ECAN95 particulate respirator masks 91裸聊视频� equivalent to the N95 masks in the U.S.

The masks were tested at a CSA Group facility in Toronto, where they passed all applicable tests, including quantitative fit testing, airflow resistance tests, and filtering efficiency.

91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e had great reception and reviews so far for our ECAN95, and have been diligently working towards certification since the beginning,91裸聊视频� Jeffrey Wang, co-founder of Eternity Medical Equipment, said in a news release issued Monday.

91裸聊视频淲e are proud of our masks and pleased that our ECAN95 is the first Canadian-made mask to receive official CSA-certification. We started this journey back in April, and to know our masks are now being used across British Columbia and the country to help fight the pandemic is very humbling to us.91裸聊视频�

In a news release last November announcing the company91裸聊视频檚 launch, Wang said he was motivated to start the company after seeing 91裸聊视频渉ow hard it was for our frontline workers to get N95 and surgical masks from overseas.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淚 really wanted to spearhead an initiative to get them made on Canadian soil, right here in British Columbia,91裸聊视频� he added.

According to Monday91裸聊视频檚 release, Eternity Medical Equipment 91裸聊视频� which operates out of a 91裸聊视频渟tate of the art91裸聊视频� 13,000 square-foot space 91裸聊视频� can produce up to 2.5 million masks per month at full capacity.

The company expects its masks to receive certification from the Centre for Disease Control91裸聊视频檚 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health later this month.

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