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The Chinese government has confiscated according to own statements so far, more than 89 million defective respiratory protection masks. Until Friday, there were inspections of around 16 million companies, as a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of industry and trade reported on Sunday. In addition to the protective masks around 418.000 protection clothes products, as well as effective disinfectant had been seized with a retail value of more than 7.6 million Yuan (about one Million euros), it said further.
It remained initially unclear how many of the seized Goods were destined for Export. Global demand for protective equipment is due to the Corona pandemic is extremely high, however, reported already in several countries of deliveries of defective products from China.
On Saturday, the Chinese government announced, therefore, tougher rules to international quality standards – also in the case of non-medical Mouth guard. Export companies must submit, in future, a written Declaration that their products conform to the safety regulations of the destination country.
Several countries, including Spain, Canada, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Turkey, had recently launched hundreds of thousands of inferior Chinese protection equipment products. According to official data, in China now per day, more than 116 million respiratory masks produced, the number of producers is, therefore, greatly increased.
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