A few tips to teach you to easily distinguish the authenticity of masks

A few tips to teach you to easily distinguish the authenticity of masks

The joint epidemic situation produced by the China Textile Engineering Society and the popular science China is now on the way, and the protective masks are becoming tighter. In the past few days, in order to buy masks, everyone has been asking in various ways and showing their magical powers, but some unscrupulous vendors have seized this opportunity to sell counterfeit and shoddy masks. So, how to distinguish the quality of the mask and the true and false under limited conditions? Here are a few simple and easy methods.

Use packaging information to check the authenticity of masks

The information on the outer packaging of the protective mask is very helpful to distinguish the authenticity of the mask. For example, a regular flat medical mask will be marked with the production license number of the product on the outer packaging. This is because medical masks are used as medical devices. Enterprises must obtain a production license number before they can be produced. Bureau's website to verify. In addition, the manufacturer's brand can also be used as an important reference for selecting masks. Some well-known brands, such as 3M's N95 masks, provide authenticity verification services, which can be checked by scanning the QR code on the package.



In particular, for non-professionals, if you want to get a qualified mask, you should buy it from regular channels as much as possible. Keep the purchase certificate after purchase, so that in case of purchasing fake and inferior products, you can also submit evidence to the official report (such as dialing 12315, etc.) to avoid more people being deceived.



Whether the mask contains melt-blown non-woven fabric

The mask is composed of multiple layers of spunbond and melt-blown non-woven fabrics. The melt-blown fabric plays a key role in protection. Due to the high price of meltblown cloth and the recent tight supply, some of the inferior masks are not using meltblown cloth, so the main protective effect is missing. There are two methods to determine whether there is a meltblown cloth in the mask:


The meltblown fabric is located in the middle layer of the mask, which is obviously different from the spunbond fabric on the surface layer. The structure of the meltblown fabric is dense and the color must be white; while the structure of the spunbond fabric is relatively loose and the transparency is high. In addition, the strength of the two fabrics is also significantly different: the melt-blown fabric has a very low strength, which can be broken when pulled by hand; and the spunbond fabric has a high strength, which requires a lot of force to tear.



Direct observation

If you really do not want to cut the mask, you can also directly observe through the appearance of the mask. Because of the dense structure of meltblown cloth, qualified masks are almost opaque, and many fake masks without meltblown cloth have higher light transmittance (for specific comparison, please refer to the figure below). Significant difference, even under natural light, the qualified product is a little opaque when worn, while the facial skin is faintly visible when the fake product is worn.




Does the meltblown cloth carry static electricity

In order to make breathing as smooth as possible, and at the same time meet the protection requirements, qualified masks with melt-blown cloth will go through the electret process. The surface of the fiber after the electret has a large amount of charge, and intercepts fine particles through the electrostatic adsorption effect. We can also use the classic physical characteristic of electrostatic adsorption to verify whether the meltblown fabric is charged. As shown in the figure below, the non-woven fabric passing through the electret will have a significant attraction for hair and iron filings (Figure a). Although the amount of meltblown cloth in a single mask is small, the effect of absorbing hair may not be obvious, but the presence of electric charge can also make it adsorb on the wall (Figure b). Despite the melt-blown cloth in some of the shoddy masks, they did not pass through the electret, or because the electret technology was not closed, and the storage time was too long, resulting in a large amount of charge dissipation, and its protection performance naturally fell short of the standard.



In the epidemic situation, the quality of protective masks is related to everyone's life. The quality of masks has attracted great attention from government departments. We believe that under the joint supervision of the government and the common people, those who make and sell fake and inferior masks will pay a terrible price.If you want to know more about it please do not hesitate to contact me. WhatsApp:+86-15966835076.