Vietnam ships 30 million masks to North America in just 2 days

[Viet]

Dat Nguyen June 7, 2020 | 03:30 pm GMT+7

Workers make face masks at a factory in the southern province of Long An. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran.



They were sent from Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Wednesday and Saturday to North American locations, logistics firm ITL Corporation said in a release on Saturday.

In May the company had shipped 1.5 million pieces of personal protective equipment to New York, the U.S.

Industry insiders say the U.S., which has so far recorded 112,000 coronavirus deaths, needs three billion face masks and is eyeing Vietnam as a supplier.

But Vietnam's Ministry of Industry said last week that amid the surge in exports of face masks there are signs that low quality products are being produced to meet volume targets, threatening to give a bad name to made-in-Vietnam products.

"There are products that fail to meet international standards, and some producers use certificates from unauthorized organizations."

Producers need to ensure the legitimacy of their certificates if they want to export to the E.U. and the U.S., it added.

In the year to April 19 Vietnam had exported 415.7 million face masks, with Japan being the largest buyer followed by South Korea, Germany, the U.S. and Hong Kong, according to Vietnam Customs.

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[FairAndUnbiased]

these are fake contaminated masks in non-FDA GMP conditions and are not ISO 13485 compliant. the best way to use these masks is to dump them in the trash. can't even be burned because nobody knows if they are RoHS compliant.

note the lack of hairnets, gloves and sterile processing.

note the manual labor involved instead of automated process equipment.

 

[Viet]

these are fake contaminated masks in non-FDA GMP conditions and are not ISO 13485 compliant. the best way to use these masks is to dump them in the trash. can't even be burned because nobody knows if they are RoHS compliant.

note the lack of hairnets, gloves and sterile processing.

note the manual labor involved instead of automated process equipment.

you don´t need such highstandards because the people now prefer reusable cloth face masks over one time use medical masks.

medical masks are certainly made differently. they are much easier to make.